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Zim's Agric Ministry lauds media contribution towards food security

Zimbabwe's Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has lauded the media for transforming various communities through sharing informative and educative texts which were used as referral templates by farmers co…

Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:04hrs | 207 | by Gideon Madzikatidze

Zimbabwe's tobacco sector showing signs of robust recovery

Zimbabwe's tobacco sector is showing signs of a robust recovery, with an 8% increase in registered growers for the 2024/2025 summer cropping season. As of November 15, 2024, 120,983 farmers have registered, compared to 112,445 in the previ…

Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 09:55hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter

Owen Ncube commissions 25 tractors

The Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Midlands, Owen Ncube, officially commissioned 25 tractors today for the Rural Infrastructural Development Agency (RIDA), in a move aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity…

Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 11:55hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter

Chevecheve High School yaita Dambudziko remvura

Chikoro cheChevecheve High School chikoro chiri muGokwe District pasi paMambo Chisina MP Ari Tawanda Karikoga.Kunyangwe hazvo chikoro ichi chiine A level parizvino, uye vana vachisvika 600 dambudziko remvura ndiro ranetsa.Makare kare chiko…

Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Mugwaza

Zimbabwean agriculture recovery in motion

ZIMBABWE is an agrarian economy and has huge potential to produce enough for its people and surplus that can be exported to generate foreign currency. However, there is a puzzling divergence between increasing food requirements as a result…

Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | 3 | by Dr John Basera

LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa

The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying to copy and paste everything from West c…

Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 14:13hrs | 4 | by Enos Denhere

$3 billion corruption while the nation starves

The agriculture sector has become a point of weakness in the Zimbabwean economy where over five million Zimbabweans are food-insecure despite billions public funds being invested in the sector.Even in a season of good rains, the country co…

Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:25hrs | | by Rusty Markham

Now we know the culprits behind Zimbabwe's agricultural failure

THE case of former Police Deputy Commissioner-General Innocent Matibiri being dragged to court for failing to pay back a US$189 000 debt is not only very intriguing, but it is also infuriating in a big way.In the matter, it is stated that …

Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Editorial - NewsDay

DAFF ignores science, wastes public funds in appealing High Court Rock Lobster ruling

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF) plans to appeal the recent Western Cape High Court ruling against fishing quotas for West Coast Rock Lobster thereby incurring further legal costs. Last month, the Cape High Co…

Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Louzel Lombard Steyn, Environmental journalist

Political lessons from the village

We Africans are proud of our villages, our traditions and our heritage. And rightly so. We are the cradle of humanity, a culture dating back to the annals of time. Obviously, there is a lot of wisdom to be found in traditions as old as our…

Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Anthony Mkondo

Zimbabwe: We rise and fall together

The prophets of 'scorched earth politics are at it again. Suddenly, according to their reading Zimbabwe is back to year 2008. What utter nonsense! The scenarios could never be more different. If we are to be honest and objectively look at …

Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 18:23hrs | 3 | by Lloyd Msipa

Farmvest.biz launches Zimbabwe's first equipment investment and sharing scheme dubbed 'Uber for tractors'

Farmvest.biz, Zimbabwe's first multi-faceted agricultural investment platform has launched an exciting new investment opportunity. For the first time ever, Zimbabweans both local and in the diaspora have the chance to invest in a part owne…

Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Michael Matope

Zimbabwe has 'stable political environment,' says Zulu - rubbish, cannot even hold free elections

The Zanu PF propaganda machine is going into overdrive as it tries to give a positive spin out of nothing!"Fortunately, complementing his (President Mnangagwa) economic vision, the country's odds seem en-route to becoming the region's econ…

Published: 12 May 2018 at 22:18hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori

A letter to Mnangagwa (Written 25 May 2014)

Honourable Minister, I want to speculate that you are most likely to be our next President until 2018. I want to take advantage of that likelihood and proffer my views on what kind of leadership Zimbabweans need.It is very clear to all of …

Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 21:13hrs | | by Vince Musewe

Mnangagwa's command agriculture: A ploy for the 2018 elections

ZANU-PF has been successful in exploiting and suppressing Zimbabweans for nearly four decades because the nation has always been blindsided by the ruling party's divide and rule tactics.In order for Zimbabwe to get rid of exploitation and …

Published: 24 May 2017 at 18:02hrs | 2 | by The Solutions Tower Staff

Global expert meeting to address challenges in agriculture and agro-industry development opens

A global expert meeting to discuss the important role of agri-business and agro-industries in reducing poverty and food insecurity kicked off in Zimbabweâ€™s northern border town of  Victoria Falls on Tuesday. The meeting is in p…

Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 14:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes

Jonathan Moyo torches storm - report

Criticism of the Command Agriculture scheme by Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, should be reined in as it is a direct attack on President Mugabe and the entire Cabinet that adopted it last year, an…

Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Tobacco farmers deserve better prices

While there are claims that tobacco farming alleviates poverty in small scale farmers, some small scale seasonal farmers have remained poor even after being in the tobacco industry for many years.Misuse of funds and poor prices of the gold…

Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 15:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta

Command Agriculture, Weapon of terror for 2018 elections

It is one year before the elections in 2018 and all reforms are still outstanding. The constitution that came into force in 2013 provides for these reforms but the ruling party largely disregards this constitution and most of the time, act…

Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 13:10hrs | | by Zanda Shumba

Mnangagwa challenges Command Agric beneficiaries

Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the US$500 million Command Agriculture scheme is a key mega national project and beneficiaries have no excuse for failing to deliver on the targeted grain tonnage.Mnangagwa made the remarks during t…

Published: 21 Dec 2016 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Agricultural inputs: Government leading by example

Zimbabweans need to applaud the effort being made by government of making sure that the agricultural inputs for this farming season are available and that farmers get access to such inputs without delay. Such a move of availing farming inp…

Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 09:31hrs | | by Kazamula Matilaya

Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe

 The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that the government has learnt a lot throug…

Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 09:17hrs | | by John Mukumbo

Command agriculture the way to go for Zimbabwe

The recent announcement by government on the $500 million command agricultural programme where it aims to produce two million tonnes of maize from 400 000 hectares of land, is an indicative that the government has learnt a lot through the …

Published: 18 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by John Mukumbo

Youth's exuberance; key to agro revitalization

Calls by the youths from Zimbabwe's agricultural colleges to repossess underutilized land has the potential to bring about the vibrancy necessary for  catapulting revitalization of agriculture and agro-processing value chain into acti…

Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Honest Mashoko

Revitalizing the agricultural sector commendable

The State of the Nation address by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on Tuesday 25 August 2015 outlined a ten-point economic growth plan which cannot be ignored. The revitalization of the agricultural sector and the agro-processing value cha…

Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 09:35hrs | | by John Mukumbo

Breaking the glass ceiling: Women agricultural scientists

They are selected because they are - or could be - as good as agricultural scientists anywhere. They are groomed in leadership, and conduct research into problems facing their individual countries. They still face an enemy - the perception…

Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Makoni

Gendering Agriculture - Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent

Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the Food and Agricu…

Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari

Zimbabwe's farmers struggle to feed the nation

Zimbabwe needs 1.8 million tonnes of the staple maize every year to meet the needs of its people and livestock. Only 798,500 tonnes were produced during the 2012/13 agricultural season. As a result, the country that was once dubbed "the br…

Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 16:12hrs | 9 | by Ish Mafundikwa

Denting youth unemployment through agriculture in Africa

Agriculture is not glamourous. It suffers from entrenched negative perceptions. In the minds of many African youths, a farmer is someone like their parents, doing backbreaking labour in the fields and getting little to show for it. Nonethe…

Published: 28 Feb 2014 at 16:47hrs | 2 | by Busani Bafana

Reaching for new heights

Information and communications technology takes agriculture to a new level in Zimbabwe Charles Dhewa loved to write about agriculture, especially soil and crops. In early 2000 he decided to turn his words into action by becoming a cattle a…

Published: 24 Jan 2014 at 23:17hrs | 1 | by Munyaradzi Makoni

Zimbabwe imports over 50 000 metric tonnes of fertilizer

Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister Dr Davis Marapira said the country will soon take delivery of over 50 000 metric tonnes of imported fertiliser for distribution to small-scale farmers under the Presiden…

Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 04:16hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter

Harper Government supports economic growth in Morocco

OTTAWA, Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister, the Honourable Gerry Ritz, announced today, on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, the Harper Government's…

Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 10:31hrs | 5 | by APO

Ministry of Agriculture donates 100 motor bikes to ZRP

Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Dr Joseph Made said the government is prepared to ensure that the national herd is restored and protected. Made also said the govt is working towards equipping the police w…

Published: 12 Aug 2011 at 12:21hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile

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