Bulawayo24 News - Skyes! "it makes perfect sense"

Diversify varieties to arrest climate change: Hekhani seeds

Farmers have been urged to use diverse seed varieties during the forthcoming farming season to combat impacts of climate change.Speaking during an interview on

Published: 16 Oct 2024 at 15:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Farmers embrace traditional grains

Farmers in Zvishavane are convinced that the traditional grains concept is the only way the district can be food secure following a promising bumper harvest of

Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 16:11hrs | | by zbcnews.co.zw

Farmers divert 50 tonnes of Presidential inputs to black market

Most Gokwe farmers diverted at least 50 tonnes of Presidential inputs and these have found their way into the black market, Farmers4ED chairperson Tapiwa Chitat

Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 08:10hrs | 11 | by Tarisai Mudahondo

Cotton farmers give Mnangagwa's Intwasa middle finger

Some cotton farmers who got free inputs from President's Emmerson Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza programme have chosen the most unorthodox way to pay back the Zimbabwean

Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Farmers need tractors, cattle have died

My rather heavy footsteps did not jolt the old farmer out of his deep thought, head rested on his bony knees, sort of mind comatose. The man was 'lost' in great thinking, pondering how he would tackle the fast approaching farming season. A…

Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

Case against paying compensation to white farmers for land appropriation

OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.We are living in a time when the vestiges of white hegemony and entitlement are, at long last, being challenged almost on a daily basis all over the world. This is as it should be. In the words of Mar…

Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:05hrs | | by Cedric Steele

Farmers do not be a sitting duck to fraudsters

Harvest time is upon us, a time of plenty. Fraudsters are on the prowl looking for who to con, taking your agricultural produce without paying a dime for it. A colleague nearly lost a tonne of top-grade sugar beans to a con artist who clai…

Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 12:11hrs | | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe

Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, arising from findings by the Constituti…

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | | by Ben Freeth

White farmers compensation gets murkier

Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between the government and two farming organisat…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:01hrs | | by Ben Freeth

Bleak future for communal farmers

Communal and subsistence farmers in most parts of rural Zimbabwe are facing a bleak farming season due in two months as the military government has resorted to distributing seed and other inputs such as fertilizer and chemicals on party li…

Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 20:44hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?

In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zimbabwe's economy, and ruined relations …

Published: 16 May 2019 at 19:25hrs | 1774 | by BBC

Mnangagwa's lease somersault not enough

GOVERNMENT'S recent policy shift to grant the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe with 99-year land leases does not address the inherent structural flaws of the legal instrument, which still remains unbankable and untransferable, disco…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Tinashe Kairiza

Land rights in Zimbabwe, should farmers receive a symbolic $1

This article is part two of an article on current land rights in Zimbabwe. The first article was entitled: Rhodes' Estate Should Compensate White Farmers, Not Mugabe; this article deals with damages and how much should then be paid to the …

Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Ken Sibanda

Open letter to all disposessed Zimbabwean farmers

The Issue of Compensation, the Compensation Steering Committee and the Valuation Consortium (Valcon) Dear All After 17 years, the compensation issue for jambanjad (taken over by force, often violently) commercial farms in Zimbabwe is back …

Published: 09 May 2017 at 15:35hrs | | by Ben Freeth

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 | | by Tendai Guta

Tobacco farmers should insure their crop

Due to the possibility of fire and natural disasters, agriculture can be a risky enterprise, making it imperative for the farmer to have insurance covers to hedge themselves against total loss.Ironically, levels of insurance in the farming…

Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 14:35hrs | | by Tendai Guta

Farmers win awards at Oatlands Irrigation Scheme

Some 12 farmers at Oatlands Irrigation Scheme in Ward 13 Masvingo Rural were last week awarded with various prizes after a weed management competition that saw

Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 04:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter

Serious farmers needed for successful land reform revolution

For over a decade now Zimbabwe has managed to transfer the land ownership scheme from the few white commercial farmers who were just about four thousand and five hundred to the black commercial farmers now numbering over three hundred thou…

Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 06:39hrs | | by John Mukumbo

Presidential well-wishers special agricultural inputs scheme boosts production

Farmers in Zimbabwe cherish the availability of the Presidential Well-Wishers Special Agricultural Inputs Scheme which His Excellence, President Robert Mugabe generously extends to them every year for boosting agricultural production. The …

Published: 18 Feb 2015 at 07:39hrs | | by Stewart Mrewa

Farmers should not sublet their land to others

The land reform program which brought on board new farmers countrywide has started yielding commendable results with the tobacco and maize farmers mapping the restoration of Zimbabwe as the food basket of SADC. The success story of the lan…

Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 08:53hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani

Farmers urged to plant winter tomato

Farmers have been urged to plant winter tomato due to high prices it fetches at the market as supply is far outstripped by demand, an official has said.Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) president Wonder Chabikwa said farmers must ve…

Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 11:10hrs | | by Freeman Makopa

Search / Farmers

Zimbabwe witnessing generation of millionaires making a difference: Chivayo

ZANU-PF's voyage dambuza breaks new ground in urban mobilisation

Drug dealer remanded after being caught with dagga on farm

Madziwa man remanded for allegedly raping own daughter

Jealous husband remanded for assaulting wife over cellphone dispute

Johane Marange congregant remanded over rape of teen girl

Transporters, passengers applaud Minister Mhona over festive breathalyser and speed camera rollout

Gold ore thief axes miner

Is oppression in Zimbabwe turning us into a violent nation?

Feared rapist Mathe escapes from Prison

ZRP intercepts truck smuggling pharmaceutical products into Zimbabwe

10 eSports to track on 1xBet this season

ZANU-PF chooses silence over service, dumps Chief Hwenje

ZANU-PF chooses silence over service, dumps Chief Hwenje

Warriors struggles to beat Qatar

Warriors struggles to beat Qatar

Mnangagwa's diplomatic calling luring African leaders

Chimombe, Mpofu seek delay in sentencing

Econet pays ZiG4.3bn in taxes

UK cleric praises Zimbabweans' resilience

'Zimbabwean men are cowards'

Mnangagwa's 2030 divides CCC

Fatal bus crash along Masvingo-Beitbridge highway

Zanu-PF luring supporters with food hampers

Jostling for Zanu-PF top post exposes fissures

ZRP in crosshairs over impounded vehicles

Bulawayo Town Clerk gets one-year extension

China grants zero tariffs on all Zimbabwe products

Pedestrians, drivers warned against headphone use on roads

Bulawayo cement plant deal collapses

Senior Magistrate Fired After Corruption Audio Leak

Workers face US$2,6m laundering charges

Bulawayo Council warns against unapproved construction

Bulawayo warns of suspected hand, foot & mouth disease outbreak

Munhenzva bus overturns near Rutenga

Mnangagwa reads riot act

Zanu-PF probes Mashonaland province over funds abuse

Dangote a potential 'game-changer' for Zimbabwe

Asiagate?: Warriors brace for Qatar

Marinica softens stance

Zimsec faces fresh criticism over exam leaks

Boost for ZiG as reserves near US$1bn

APRM panel reviews Zimbabwe's economic governance

Zesa secures US$12m to boost power supply

Zimbabwe to roll out 7-day passport service

Tagwirei to build multi-million-dollar complex to boost MSMEs

American economist attacks Mnangagwa

ZACC probes disappearance of US$4,5 million

CID Officer Dies in Muzarabani-Centenary Highway Crash

Khumbu Malinga tipped to win Nkulumane by-election

Feared rapist Mathe escapes from Prison

Is oppression in Zimbabwe turning us into a violent nation?

ZRP intercepts truck smuggling pharmaceutical products into Zimbabwe

ZANU-PF chooses silence over service, dumps Chief Hwenje

WATCH: Zimbabwean cattle rancher shatters auction records in South Africa

ZANU-PF chooses silence over service, dumps Chief Hwenje

Mnangagwa reads riot act

Senior Magistrate Fired After Corruption Audio Leak

Warriors struggles to beat Qatar

News Team

Advertising