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Deep-rooted corruption at Harare City Council
Harare City Council has for decades been run by unscrupulous individuals whose corrupt activities continue to cripple service delivery, a damning Commission of Inquiry report has revealed. The finding...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:29hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spotlights ministers' performance
IN line with President Mnangagwa's high-performance culture, Cabinet ministers and heads of public sector agencies will this week sign their performance-based contracts which are designed to nurture a...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lines up 40 000 tonnes maize exports
Zimbabwe is ready to resume grain exports this year with initial exports of 40 000 tonnes of grain to East Africa from the substantial surpluses grown by the farmers as the Second Republic's agricultu...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets US$ 1,6bn tobacco exports
Zimbabwe has so far exported over 98 million kg of tobacco since the start of the marketing season as the country makes strides towards achieving its target of over US$1,6 billion in total exports, a ...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets wheat exports as output rises
Zimbabwe is considering exporting surplus wheat to Mozambique from this year's anticipated harvest of 420 000 tonnes, well above the country's requirements of 360 000 tonnes a year.Last year, ...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2023 wheat hectarage rises to 86 000
Farmers have planted wheat on 86 000 hectares this season, which is 4 000 hectares shy of the targeted 90 000 hectares, setting the stage for yet another bumper wheat harvest, Lands, Agriculture, Fish...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:54hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records highest tobacco output in 198 years
Zimbabwe has recorded the highest tobacco output in its 198 years of growing the crop.The milestone follows another agriculture success story that resulted in last year's wheat output being th...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink
ZIMBABWE is on the brink of recording its largest-ever tobacco haul, as deliveries at auction floors had reached 251 million kilogrammes by last week, which is 10 million kg shy of the record realised...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to surpass wheat output
Zimbabwe is optimistic that this year's winter wheat production will surpass last year's yield of 375 000 tonnes following various interventions implemented by Government and the private sector to bol...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets net wheat exporter status
GOVERNMENT has revised upwards the winter wheat production target of 85 000 hectares to 90 000 hectares as the country is positioning itself to be a net exporter of wheat in the region.To date...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 40 under-40 leaders named
MINISTRY of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Deputy Minister Vangelis Haritatos and his Permanent Secretary Dr John Basera have been named among 40 most influential leaders w...Published: 28 May 2023 at 07:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes Dr Masuka a non-constituency MP
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has revealed that he has exempted Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister, Dr Anxious Masuka from distractions of constituency politics to solely focus...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that there is no place for incompetence
INEPTITUDE and poor performance in local authorities and State-owned enterprises are unacceptable and have no place in the Second Republic which will soon be implementing an Accelerator Model to quick...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe maize harvest to hit three million tonnes?
Zimbabwe is poised to record its largest-ever maize harvest this year, with preliminary assessments indicating that production could hit three million tonnes.The previous record maize haul was...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US$275m for new GMB silos
The GOVERNMENT plans to spend more than US$275 million over the next three years to construct new Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos, as well as renovate and modernise old ones countrywide to cater for...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Milk Production increases to 74,96 Million litres
The latest figures from the Ministry of Lands Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development's dairy services show that milk Production as of the end of the year 2022 increased by 14%.In ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 14:29hrs | 41 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Zimbabwean firms to manufacture farm equipment
ZIMBABWE will this year start producing farm equipment locally, with some of the first products expected to be out by March.The latest development is a result of the innovativeness of local hu...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe expects record 380 000 tonnes wheat harvest
FARMERS have started harvesting the winter wheat crop and for the first time since wheat growing started in 1966, Zimbabwe expects to reach self-sufficiency with a harvest of 380 000 tonnes.Sp...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza inputs ready
Inputs for smallholder farmers under the Presidential Climate-Proofed Agriculture Programme or Pfumvudza/Intwasa have started being dispatched to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide, with f...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives out free poultry for 3 million households
AT least three million households will benefit from the revamped Presidential Rural Poultry Scheme that will see beneficiaries receiving 10 indigenous poultry chicks each as part of a targeted empower...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa dedicates 100MW to winter wheat
THE power utility, Zesa, has committed to availing 100 megawatts of electricity towards winter wheat production as a way of supporting food security and cushioning the country from global shocks....Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 000 farming joint ventures approved
So far 2 000 joint farming ventures covering up to 200 000 hectares have been approved by Government to boost agriculture.Speaking at the first meeting of the Joint Venture and Investment Trus...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fight against tick-borne diseases intensifies
THE fight against tick-borne related diseases has been escalated following the launch of the national tick-borne disease control strategy and the refurbishment of a laboratory for the production...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'Put people first'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday exhorted public officials to always put the interests of the ordinary people first, stressing the need for teamwork in the implementation of Government programmes tailore...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Duty-free boost for agric
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has listed import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT)-free agricultural equipment while the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to dish out free poultry, goats to 5 million Zimbabweans
ABOUT five million households in different parts of the country are expected to benefit from the Presidential Rural Poultry and Goat Pass-On scheme that will see the Government dishing out goats and c...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ultimatum for defaulting farmers
Farmers financed under Command Agriculture have until November 30 to deliver their maize to the Grain Marketing Board or be blacklisted so they can not access any more Government-guaranteed loans and ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister Haritatos' mother dies
Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Vangelis Haritatos' mother Angela has died of Covid-19 related complications. Mrs Haritatos died yesterday, only 18 ...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Command Agric 'looters'
Farmers under Command Agriculture who failed to repay their loans at the end of last season owing to drought and the Covid-19-induced national lockdown, have been granted a huge relief after Governmen...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Crop hectarage increases by 23%
Farmers planted different crops on over 3,4 million hectares in the 2020/2021 agricultural season, driven by a good rainfall forecast, early distribution of inputs and capacitation of extension worker...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Presidential inputs scheme surpasses target
The Presidential Inputs Support Scheme surpassed the 2020/21 target, contributing to the timely start to the season that is anticipated to bring a bumper harvest. According to Agricultur...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | 3 | by Dr John Basera
Desperate villagers sell cattle for US$50 as disease bites
SOME desperate villagers in Chiweshe are selling cattle for as low as US$50 as a result of the outbreak of Theileriosis, or January Disease, a tick-borne infection that has claimed hundreds of cattle ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:13hrs | 30 | by Staff Reporter
High hopes as crop assessment begins
THERE are expectations the 2020/2021 summer cropping season would be one of the most productive seasons post-land reform, as the Government prepares to undertake a national crop and livestock assessme...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
The white man behind Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme
Zimbabweans have embraced the Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme that is turning out to be the trump card for this summer cropping season. However, not many people know the man behind the concept. Last week,...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rains raise hopes of bumper harvest
LOCAL farmers have started the summer season at a blistering pace and have already planted more than 80 percent of the targeted hectarage of maize, laying the foundation for a bumper harvest in the co...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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