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Seized Russian fertiliser consignment finally arrives
ABOUT 10 000 tonnes of fertiliser, which are part of the 26 000-tonne consignment from Uralchem Group, a leading Russian agrochemical producer, have arrived in Zimbabwe.Uralchem pledged close ...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Region to get more rains in next 3 weeks
The Southern African rainfall forecast for December-February has experts predicting normal to above normal rainfall for the next three weeks.The experts have said there will be need for farmer...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Fertilizer Fiasco: Binga Teacher Behind Bars for Presidential Inputs Scandal
In a recent legal development, a 39-year-old teacher from Chinego Primary School under Chief Pashu in Binga finds himself in custody following accusations of unlawfully possessing Presidential Command...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 08:35hrs | 7 | by Peter Matuka
Only 22,2% urban households involved in urban agriculture
About 22.2% of households were involved in urban agriculture.This is revealed in the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2023 report which noted that therefore, the Government...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 17:43hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe ready to dump US dollar
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the country is agreeable to the use of alternative forms of payment for various transactions as opposed to the sole use of the United States dollar.Yesterday durin...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 22 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
ZANU-PF chairman acquitted
ZANU-PF Mazowe chairperson for ward 21 who was accused of stealing seven bags of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer which were meant for Pfumvudza pr...Published: 15 Apr 2023 at 09:11hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU PF vice chairman steals fertilizer
ZANU PF Mazowe chairperson for ward 21 allegedly stole seven bags of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer which were meant for Pfumvudza program.Brack Mazenge (63) was dragged to Concession magistrate ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 17:19hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Causes of food inflation in Zimbabwe
The World Bank recently released a report of the countries hardest hit by food inflation in the world. Zimbabwe tops that list with food inflation of 353% in the month of August 2022, beating Lebanon ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:11hrs | 7 | by Victor Bhoroma
Smallholder farmers to benefit from US$15 million loan
SMALLHOLDER farmers will soon benefit from a US$15 million loan obtained by the Government from the OPEC Fund for International Development.Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor ...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 01:02hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is on irreversible forward march
ZIMBABWE is experiencing increased inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in most provinces, at a time when the world is grappling with multiple economic challenges.This indicates...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deputy minister arrested for inputs theft
Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Douglas Karoro was arrested last night on allegations of grabbing 700 bags of fertiliser, US$18 000 worth of maize seed a...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deputy minister in GMB theft scandal
DEPUTY Agriculture minister Douglas Karoro is embroiled in a scandal involving the alleged theft of a huge consignment of fertiliser from Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot at Mushumbi in Mbire....Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister sucked in fertiliser scam
Lands deputy minister and Mbire Member of Parliament, Douglas Karoro, has been implicated in a presidential inputs scam after allegedly acquiring fertiliser from the government programme under the gui...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:16hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Cloud seeding starts as crops suffer growing moisture stress
THE Meteorological Services Department has commenced cloud-seeding in order to encourage rainfall after crops, especially late-planted crops, are showing signs of growing moisture stress due to a prol...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major component installed at CSC Bulawayo plant
THE installation of one of the major components at the CSC Boustead Beef Zimbabwe Bulawayo plant, the condenser has begun with engineers optimistic that it will be up and running in April. The...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals to double production to 200 000t
ZIMBABWE'S sole ammonium nitrate production outfit, Sable Chemical Industries says it will double production to 200 000 tonnes a year by 2023 after getting a US$11 million boost from a regional lender...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Russian fertiliser producer opens base in Zimbabwe
UNITED Fertiliser Company Limited (UFCL), a Russian firm with a global footprint, has opened a branch in Zimbabwe.The latest development comes at a time when the Government, under the Second R...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Enough inputs for 2021 season
Seed and fertiliser firms have ramped up production to meet demand for inputs for the forthcoming summer cropping season in State-assisted programmes and the commercial sector, with farmers urged to b...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suffers US$300m trade deficit
ZIMBABWE suffered a US$300 million trade deficit during the first quarter of 2021, as imports continued to dominate the value of goods exported by the country, data from the Ministry of Finance and Ec...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains spell doom for Plumtree villagers
After receiving poor rains in the 2019-2020 forming season which culminated in hunger, Macingwane, Ezimnyama, Ngwanyana and other villages in Mangwe, Matabeleland South province, remain in despa...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP, Chief defy lockdown
Muzarabani South legislator Tapera Saizi and traditional leader Chief Chiweshe Mukore-kore (Matthew Minyonga) on Sunday defied lockdown by conducting a Zanu-PF meeting with over 60 village heads....Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 10:52hrs | | by Shelton Muchena/Lloyd Rabaya
Record harvest expected in 2020/21 season
Government is expecting an increase in crop production under Command Agriculture after the planting hectarage increased by over 18 percent for the 2020/21 farming season, with maize, tobacco and cotto...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
55 000t fertiliser on the way
UP to 55 000 tonnes of top dressing fertiliser have been imported, while resources have also been set aside to ensure accelerated imports of fertiliser to avert local shortages and ensure summer crops...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco exports net US$690 million
AT least 168 million kg of tobacco worth US$688 million had been exported across the globe by November 20, Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (Timb) data showed last week.The Timb said shipments for...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need to urgently fix Zimbabwe, says Makoni
Former Finance minister Simba makoni says Zimbabwe needs a culture shift to get the economy working again.Makoni (SM) told Alpha media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube (TN) on the show In Conver...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
732 000 farmers receive inputs
MORE than 732 000 households have received seed under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) intensifies distribution of inputs ahead of the November 15 dead...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Normal rainy season forecast
GOVERNMENT will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive boost for agriculture
Government will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
FSG speaks on fertiliser deals
Farming inputs manufacturer, Fertiliser Seed Grain (FSG), this week said it has fulfilled its contractual obligations with the Government, dismissing recent claims that it was paid US$400 million with...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dirty, dirty Harare water
The toxicity levels in Lake Chivero have reached alarming levels, twice the stipulated minimum, with Harare City Council spending US$3 million monthly on a cocktail of water treatment chemicals to rem...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages gnaws Zimbabwe's fertilizer industry
ZIMBABWE'S fertilizer industry says it is constrained by forex shortages, but it still has the capacity to produce enough to meet the country's demand this year and export excess production.Zi...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Antiquated equipment cripples Zimbabwe's agric sector
Zimbawe's agricultural sector needs massive retooling to increase production as it is still relying on antiquated equipment.Farming experts said as long as the situation remains like this, the...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 09:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Produce locally to save forex'
ZIMBABWE can save foreign currency through reinforcement of value chain for goods that can be produced locally to cut the import bill and trade deficit, Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trade deficit drops
Zimbabwe's trade deficit narrowed 37 percent in October last year to $144 million after total exports jumped 25 percent to $449 million largely driven by a 300 percent vault in tobacco shipments, acco...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Business Weekly.
Man nabbed for defrauding Sables Chemicals
A 34-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man, who was on the Interpol red flag for allegedly defrauding Sable Chemicals of 300 tonnes of fertiliser worth $174 000 four years ago, was last week apprehended outside the U...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends duty on commodities
Suspension of duty on selected commodities among them luxury and public service buses, ammonium nitrate fertilisers, fertilised eggs for hatching and powdered raw milk among other critical goods, came...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business leaders conflicted over imports ban
ZIMBABWE'S business leaders want government to suspend the Statutory Instrument (SI)22, which is meant to protect local industry from cheap and non-essential imports, to counter the growing shortages ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals is 52% off output target
SABLE Chemicals Industries (Sable), Zimbabwe's only manufacturer of ammonium nitrate (AN), has produced just about half of its target output in the first eight months of the year, an official has said...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals pleads for Govt support
SOLE Ammonium Nitrate (AN) fertiliser producer, Sable Chemicals, has appealed for Government support in securing foreign currency to beef up production and meet demand ahead of the 2018/19 summer crop...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government reveals plan for Bikita ammonium plant
GOVERNMENT has unveiled plans to facilitate establishment of a multi-million dollar ammonium sulphate processing plant in Bikita, Masvingo province. The project would be useful in import subst...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals warns of fertiliser crisis
SABLE Chemicals Industries (Sable), Zimbabwe's only manufacturer of ammonium nitrate (AN), says it will only be able to meet just about 38% of national demand this year.AN is a top-dressing fe...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trips self on FDI
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF have contradicted each other on the country's investment figures, with the former saying Zimbabwe has attracted a hefty $16 billion mentioned in the...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows to reopen closed companies
President Mnangagwa has said reopening closed companies and ensuring they contribute significantly to the economy is his Government's top priority.He has set a target to turn Zimbabwe into a m...Published: 07 Jun 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name-and-shame gimmick falls short of expectations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday released the long-awaited list of companies and individuals alleged to have failed to return $827 million stashed abroad following the expiry of a 1...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals crippled by forex shortages
THE shortage of foreign currency has impacted on the ability of Sable Chemicals to produce enough fertiliser for the domestic market, forcing farmers to import 70% of ammonium nitrate, Parliament has ...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Command inputs abused
An Agricultural Extension Officer in Filabusi and two villagers have been arrested on charges of abusing command agriculture inputs worth over $4 000 which had been allocated to 71 farmers in Insiza....Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex-starved wives in demo
IF Hollywood directors were to come to Zimbabwe to pick comic stories to make movies, they would definitely make a perfect movie out of the following tale of some married women from Makore Village in ...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo got $100 000 from Command Agric
Professor Jonathan Moyo received inputs worth around US$100 000 under Command Agriculture - and wants additional resources from the programme the Mnangagwa controlled Sunday Mail reported.This...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer in trouble for side marketing
A Tobacco farmer from Mvuramachema farm in Guruve, Mashonaland Central was fined $150 for side marketing.He is accused of contravening section 24(1) (a) of Stop Order Act chapter 18:11....Published: 08 May 2017 at 22:23hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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