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Zimbabwe targets 60 000MT of fish exports by 2026
Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development David Marapira has announced an ambitious plan to boost Zimbabwe's aquaculture sector. The government aims to increase fi...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:53hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
A life-giving greenbelt in Matabeleland South
AMID the anxiety and disillusionment occasioned by projections of below-normal rains in the 2023-2024 summer cropping season due to the El Niño weather phenomenon, some farmers opted not to plant any...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Overfishing depletes the Zambezi
Since quitting her post as a teacher about six years ago, 33-year-old Hazel Svinurai has made numerous break-of-dawn trips to the edges of the Zambezi River, about 500km from her home in Zimbabwe's se...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's bussed crowds going invade Mashonaland Central
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today heads to Centenary, Mashonaland Central Province, for a Star Rally that is expected to be another huge success, as Zanu PF continues to demonstrate its indomitable mobilisati...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe registers 6,5% GDP growth
ZIMBABWE'S economy grew by 6,5 percent last year, as the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to increase year by year, despite the adverse impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Zimbabwe N...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia collaborate to replenish Kapenta stocks
ZIMBABWE and Zambia are working together in a bid to regulate fishing rigs on the largest water body, Lake Kariba, to try and replenish Kapenta stocks.This comes as a measure to reduce over-fi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for political tolerance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called for political tolerance among politicians aspiring to contest in the 2023 harmonised elections.The President also said parliamentarians should swiftly atte...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
12 Matebeleland dams set for fisheries programme
MATEBELELAND fish farmers are set to benefit from the Government's fisheries programme after 12 dams from the region were targeted for the Presidential Fisheries Programme that will involve 50 000 far...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches rural poultry scheme
THE Presidential Rural Poultry Scheme which is expected to provide 30 million chicks to at least three million people across the country's rural areas was launched in Masvingo on Thursday in line with...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Israeli billionaire targets Zimbabwe real estate, mining
ISRAELI billionaire and Shabtai Group of Companies president, Mr Gilad Shabtai, is in the country and has already met President Mnangagwa to discuss and explore the various investment opportunities av...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers turn to aquaponics
A CRICKETER turns his back on the excitement of pro sports to take on a whole new challenge: farming without soil.Yasser Parker thought he had fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a profe...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Poverty is a choice'
SHE has set herself a target of being one of the biggest fish farmers in Matabeleland and Midlands region.Ms Patricia Tabengwa (67), a pensioner from Killarney suburb in Bulawayo believes that...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's exports on the rise
AMID the pervasive disruption to world trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Zimbabwe's exports held up well between January-June this year compared to the same period last year.According ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Allan Majuru
Zimbabwe now medical oxygen, industrial gas sufficient
ZIMBABWE is now medical oxygen and industrial gas sufficient following the official opening of its first Air Separation Unit (ASU) plant expected to transform the country's health and agricultural sec...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shun donor dependency: Govt
GOVERNMENT has urged citizens to shun donor dependency saying over-reliance on donors had led to infiltration by the country's detractors.Women Affairs, Community and Small and Medium Enterpri...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | | 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...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel
The Zimparks, Lake Kariba Fisheries Research Institute (LKFRI) has launched small-scale fisheries (SSF) project that support loc
Titled, "Setting the stage for successful and sustainable management, development and utilisation of the small-scale fisheries of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe" is the project that was launched yesterday by t...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio correspondent
Chiwenga's 'brother' implicated as foreign firms defy govt ban on river bank mining
FOREIGN-LINKED companies - particularly from China and Belarus - are deploying heavy machinery to river banks to mine for gold under the guise that they are desilting the watercourses, it has emerged....Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda villagers form livestock production company
GROUP of villagers in Gwanda North, Matabeleland South have formed a company, which is largely into livestock production, in a bid to economically empower themselves and develop their community....Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Young Farmer does wonders in 'dry' Matabeleland
Despite Matabeleland being a dry region characterised by low rainfall and recurrent droughts, 28-year-old Prosper Chikwara (28) has managed to produce wonders, landing the Best Young Farmer of the Yea...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:50hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Managing fisheries sustainably at Lake Kariba
ACCORDING to the Commercial Fishing Industry - Global Market Outlook, the global commercial fishing industry market accounted for US$240,99 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $438,59 billion by ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:48hrs | | by Tinashe Farawo
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 le...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 09:40hrs | | by Louzel Lombard Steyn, Environmental journalist
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold
WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo prov...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$8 billion for water infrastructure
Zimbabwe requires about US$8 billion to construct 37 major water infrastructure facilities, including dams and water purification structures to meet the increasing demands of the growing urban populat...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporer
Mnangagwa says will protect property rights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured local and foreign investors that his administration will protect their rights by making conditions conducive for investment.He made the pledge yesterda...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reassures investors
President Mnangagwa has assured local and foreign investors that his administration will protect their rights by making conditions conducive for investment.He made the pledge yesterday in Hara...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt invites 2018-19 scholarship applications
GOVERNMENT is inviting applications from students willing to pursue Graduate, Post Graduate and PhD courses under the Presidential Scholarships Programme for the 2018/19 academic year. The Minister of...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bringing youth back to agriculture in Southern Africa
Harare - Making agriculture more attractive to young farmers and creating decent employment opportunities in rural areas could reverse migration of youth to urban centres and abroad. The migration of ...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by FAO
What's choking Kariba?
In the previous instalment Laiton Kandawire looked at overfishing and how fisheries authorities in both Zimbabwe and Zambia agreed to impose a Full Moon non-fishing ban of at least seven days to comba...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko
Oceans are public property
Oceans are an important natural resource whose actions on the livelihood of every citizen of the earth can not be ignored. In the same vein, activities of villagers far away from a river's banks affec...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Water, a top priority human right
A water-wise Good Samaritan has been offering clean water for free to strangers along Samora Machel Avenue West in the vicinities of Belvedere's Marimba shopping centre for decades now. Possibly that ...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Bulawayo friends receive PhDs from Stellenbosch University
Two classmates from Bulawayo who studied together at Zimbabwe's Midlands State University in their undergraduate years both received their PhD degrees in agricultural sciences from Stellenbosch Univer...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Engela Duvenage
Climate Change tops agenda at Benguela Current Commission Ministerial Meeting
Swakopmund - Key ministries from three countries that make up the Benguela current marine system - Angola, Namibia and South Africa converged last week in Swakopmund, Namibia for the commission's 5th ...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 17:59hrs | | by Sithembile Siziba
Promoting sustainable aquaculture development in southern Africa
Harare - Fisheries and aquaculture are of critical importance to the economic development and food security of the Southern African Development Community, with large portions of the populations undern...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 17:26hrs | 7 | by Sithembile Siziba
Netherlands keen to revive Zimbabwe's agriculture sector
The Netherlands is seeking to promote growth in Zimbabwe's agriculture sector by attracting investment in the ailing industry. The European nation, in a report commissioned by the Royal Ne...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Renewed assault on Zimbabwe property rights
THE government has advised remaining white commercial farmers to apply for 99-year leases to avoid losing their land amid growing pressure from senior officials and Zanu-PF supporters for more land s...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aquaculture sector needs proper investment
There is need for proper investment for the fast rising aquaculture sector which contribute about 10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), an official has said.Aquaculture is ...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 09:36hrs | | by Portia Sigauke
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