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Edgar Vhera Agriculture Specialist Writer POLICE in Binga has launched a 24-hour patrol programme on Lake Kariba’s Sengwa Basin 3 to contain escalating armed robbery cases in which marauding gangs of armed men have been robbing fishermen of their kapenta catches and personal belongings every night over the last two months. Matabeleland North Zimbabwe Republic […]

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Edgar Vhera Agriculture Specialist Writer ALL is set for the 2023 Good Food and Seed Festival (GFSF) scheduled for September 29 and 30 in Harare where Svoboda, a local millet variety will be showcased for production in agro-ecological regions 3, 4 and 5. The festival is jointly hosted by Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) […]

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Edgar Vhera  Agriculture Specialist Writer PADDOCKS with enough water to allow the practice of controlled grazing can save cattle from poverty deaths even in the face of the projected El Nino phenomenon this coming season or during lean years that usually have inadequate pastures to sustain livestock. Livestock Farmers Union (LFU) chairman Mr Sifiso Sibanda yesterday […]

WITH the country targeting to speedily harvest the 2023 winter wheat to escape the early rains, AFC Leasing Company (AFC) has announced its preparedness to harvest over 25 percent of the cereal planted this year.

CALLS by the Government for industry to secure at least 40 percent of their raw material requirements through value chain financing are getting receptive audiences, with various players now targeting to fund 65 percent of production this coming season.

FOLLOWING the recent El Niño  forecast for some Southern African countries, Zimbabwe included, stakeholders in agriculture have challenged farmers to be proactive and adequately prepare their irrigation facilities, intensify water harvesting, conserve and protect wetlands to mitigate the phenomenon’s harsh effects.

IN line with Government’s growing calls for the private sector to actively participate in agricultural production, a Harare company, Total Farm Solutions, has taken the initiative to promote the use of greenhouses, as a way of climate-proofing production to improve yields and ultimately food security.

THE country’s largest cotton merchant, Cottco, is set to witness a surge in earnings on the backdrop of firming lint prices on the international market coupled with rising levels of lint processing into yarn.

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Ashton Mutyavaviri PRIVATE sector players have added their voice to Government’s growing calls for farmers to adopt conservation agriculture (CA) practices as part of efforts to lessen the impact of the predicted El Nino phenomenon whose occurrence in known to cause droughts that destroy crops resulting in food insecurity. An agronomist with local seed producer, […]

Obert Chifamba GOVERNMENT has announced plans to begin stone fruit exports to South Africa this year amid revelations that containers of the fruits are being readied with the Plant Quarantine Services Institute already working on the protocol. Head of the Plant Quarantine Services Institute under the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development […]

Edgar Vhera Agriculture Specialist Writer THE Agricultural and Marketing Authority (AMA) has capped a programme to rehabilitate smallholder irrigation schemes by training irrigation marketing committees on agricultural marketing and contract farming in four provinces. The Smallholder Irrigation Revitalisation Programme (SIRP) undertook to rehabilitate non-functional irrigation schemes in the programme that is set to end this year […]