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Hard work pays - farming is good business
The 1924/25 tobacco farming season was a resounding success for both the farmers and country. Growing tobacco is labour intensive but the rewards and profits far outweigh the moments when shoulders ar...Published: 07 May 2025 at 19:42hrs | 706 | by Tondo Murisa
Tobacco Stakeholders urged to come up with a pension scheme
Agronomy expert Lazarus Gatawa has urged stakeholders in the tobacco industry to consider putting in place a special pension scheme for tobacco farmers.Gatawa, who is a tobacco senior agronomi...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:01hrs | 32 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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
Huge progress as tobacco sales hit over US$800m
Over 270 million kg of tobacco worth US$817 million have been sold at the auction and contract floors since the beginning of the marketing season in March, with a lot of money flowing into the tobacco...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Chekhov's middle age monks
From a writer, critic, traveller, doctorI am reading selected letters of Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer, critic, traveller and medical doctor.The letters span a big chunk of his lif...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:03hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 On Saturday
Tobacco farmers urged to implement climate change proofing Agricultural practices
Senior Agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged tobacco farmers to plan thoroughly and elevate their agricultural practices as mitigation measures to cou...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 08:39hrs | 22 | by Simbarashe Sithole
RBZ backtracks on farmers' forex retention thresholds
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been forced to raise foreign currency retention thresholds for tobacco producers by 10% following pressure from farmers.RBZ also scrapped the compulsory ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zinwa should also check on levels of siltation in dams
NUMEROUS media channels have recently been inundated with stories on the national average dam levels breaching the 88 percent mark, which generated lots of excitement among farmers intending to produc...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Obert Chifamba
Simba Makoni in Padeswood farm plots scandal
Headlands Community turns to media for support in resolving Padeswood farm plots scandal (water and pasture crisis).We have a terrible situation in Headlands, Padeswood plots Makoni Rural Coun...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:44hrs | 3 | by Big Ray
Whites score big against blacks - land compensation
Land is and was at the centre of all political developments for the indigenous black Zimbabwean population's pre and post independence movements. The liberation war against white minority rule's black...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:37hrs | | by Terence Simbi
MPs want cannabis/ mbanje fees reduced
LEGISLATORS yesterday lobbied the government to reduce the $50 000 licence fee charged on farmers, who want to take up the production of cannabis on a commercial scale.The MPs claimed the fees...Published: 10 May 2018 at 08:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
+70 Zimbabwean farmers in Zambia yearn to return home
farmer_farmerOver 70 Zimbabwean white commercial farmers living in Zambia are yearning to return home and assist redevelop the agriculture sector in the once Southern African Development Commu...Published: 07 May 2018 at 10:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Price increases caught Chinamasa by surprise
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa has said he was surprised that during last weekend's panic-buying, many people were seen even hoarding mealie meal.Chinamasa told guests at the MEJRKH 2017 M...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-white farmers lose dam case
The High Court has set aside a determination that had awarded a syndicate of three white former farmers more than $111 000 for water used by a mining company on state-acquired land.Justice Lav...Published: 16 Jun 2017 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Decentralisation of tobacco auction floors noble
Growing tobacco has been the boon for the Zimbabwe's economy and its farmers. The golden leaf is truly one of the country's major foreign currency earner generating an average of 800 million dollars a...Published: 23 May 2017 at 12:45hrs | 5 | by Tendai Guta
Prophet under fire for 'blessing' tobacco
HARARE-BASED Prophet, Lazarus Mashavave has come under fire for 'blessing' tobacco farmers who are seeking to prosper as this is being viewed in some quarters as contradicting his mission of deliverin...Published: 02 Apr 2017 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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....Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 15:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta
Tobacco farmers must go green
Growing tobacco has been the boon for the Zimbabwe's economy and its farmers. The golden leaf is truly one of the country's major foreign currency earner generating an average of 800 million dollars a...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Tendai Guta
Grace Mugabe cronies wreck farm in one year
A once thriving tobacco farm where a white Zimbabwean farmer and his wife lived for 35 years before being turfed out by a British doctor with links to first lady Grace Mugabe lies empty only a year af...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by MailOnline
Grace Mugabe cronies wreck farm in one year
A once thriving tobacco farm where a white Zimbabwean farmer and his wife lived for 35 years before being turfed out by a British doctor with links to first lady Grace Mugabe lies empty only a yea...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
China to set up a cigarette plant in Zimbabwe
China is expected to set up a cigarette manufacturing company in Harare following discussions between the government and officials from the Asian giant, it has emerged. Finance and Economi...Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
I feel vindicated, says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe turned 91-years-old on the 21st of February, and had his birthday celebrations in Victoria Falls over the weekend. As per tradition, the President granted an interview to ZBCtv Curren...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Chris Chivinge
Robert Mugabe's land permit con
Out of the crooked timber of Zanu-PF, nothing straight will ever be made.I detest it when Zanu-PF takes advantage of the ignorance of the masses to create the delusion that they are empowering...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 09:14hrs | | by Vince Musewe
The untold story of tobacco farming
Granaries were a common feature of every household in Zimunya area, south of the city of Mutare, in Manicaland province but these once vital structures have long vanished making way for crudely bu...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Zimbabwe Budget 2014 Live Updates
1701: Minister Chinamasa has just ended his budget presentation.View / download a ...Published: 19 Dec 2013 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Getting Agriculture right as a matter of urgency
I sincerely hope that our minister of agriculture Dr. Made, is having sleepless nights.Zimbabwe needs about 1.8 million tonnes of maize a year to ensure that the nation has adequate food ...Published: 19 Nov 2013 at 08:05hrs | | by Vince Musewe
'Shun corruption, focus on development,' says Mujuru
Vice President Joice Mujuru has called on Zimbabweans to shun corruption and underhand dealings, but instead adopt innovative ways such as forming partnerships in their respective sectors to boost th...Published: 03 Oct 2013 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New tobacco growers reach 21000 mark in Zimbabwe
More than 21 000 new tobacco growers from traditionally non-tobacco growing regions have registered with the Tobacco Industries and Marketing Board (TIMB) ahead of the 2013 to 2014 summer cropping s...Published: 01 Oct 2013 at 02:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Counting Lobengula's looted head
Just under two days ago I held a fascinating discussion with Baffour Ankomah, the British-based, Ghanaian-born Editor of the world-read New African magazine. Well known for his obdurately pro-Mugabe ...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 08:14hrs | 31 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Robert Gabriel Mugabe: Visionary or Mad Man?
A look into how the land reform has affected Zimbabwe "The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful ...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Brendah Nyakudya
In Zimbabwe land reform, a golden lining
When Roger Boka started his auction business in the 1990s, this city's tobacco trading floors were hushed places, save the mellifluous patter of the auctioneer. A handful of white farmers, each sellin...Published: 21 Jul 2012 at 06:19hrs | | by Lydia Polgreen
Indigenisation: looking at the bigger picture
ZIMBABWE’S indigenisation and empowerment law, whose present focus is on the mining sector, has been called many things: ‘destructive’, inimical to â...Published: 15 Apr 2011 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Psychology Maziwisa
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