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But Dr. Kudakwashe Tagwirei is an Economic Liberation War Hero

I often ask myself: what does it truly mean to be a patriot today? In the twenty-first century, the battlefield isn't defined by guns or trenches. It's the boardroom, the farm, the market, anywhere decisions are made that determine whether…

Published: 28 Sep 2025 at 16:53hrs | | by Tedious Ncube

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

FAO: Agriculture will make or break Africa's free trade

Transforming agri-food systems can unlock Africa's potential.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food insecurity in Africa. However, its success res…

Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel

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

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

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

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

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 latest 'plan' to resolve Zimbabwe's hunger problem

Ever since 2001, a year after the brutal invasion of Zimbabwe's commercial farms began, the country has been dependent on vast volumes of international food aid.  Thanks to the generosity of farmers and tax payers in the USA, the UK a…

Published: 23 Aug 2016 at 08:46hrs | 3 | by Ben Freeth, Zimbabwe

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

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