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Zimbabwe on course to break winter wheat production record
Zimbabwe is poised to set a new winter wheat production record, with farmers having already harvested over 490,000 tonnes this season, a milestone that highlights the nation's agricultural revival in ...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:06hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wheat harvesting intensifies
More than 18,000 tonnes of wheat have been harvested across Zimbabwe as the 2024 winter wheat harvesting season continues in full swing, with an average yield of 5.5 tonnes per hectare. The harvest co...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:12hrs | 166 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to achieve targeted metric tonnes of winter wheat
The government has announced that Zimbabwe is on track to meet its goal of producing 600,000 metric tonnes of winter wheat by the end of the 2024/25 season, a crucial step in its pursuit of food secur...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 17:12hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons target food self-sufficiency
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) is working on building adequate food reserves independently, without relying on government budget allocations, to feed its roughly 22,000 inmates. ...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:44hrs | | 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
Drones to control Tsetse flies, quelea birds in Zimbabwe
Drones are now part of efforts to control infestation of tsetse flies and quelea birds, as the Government moves on to step up ways to digitalise the economy.Authorities are making efforts to m...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland gets Intwasa inputs
FARMERS in Matabeleland are geared for the summer cropping season following the delivery of agricultural inputs for the 2022/2023 farming season under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme, p...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to buy agriculture drones
GOVERNMENT is set to buy 10 agricultural drones to fight birds , pests and diseases that threaten crops, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development Dr Anxious Masuka ha...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets new record of planted winter wheat hectares
ZIMBABWE has this year set a new record of planted winter wheat hectares and farmers have been exempt from electricity load shedding, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica M...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland in record wheat harvest
Wheat production has been rising fast in Zimbabwe and farmers in Matabeleland provinces are contributing immensely to a promising season.Across the country, wheat farmers have started harvesti...Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wheat harvesting begins
Harvesting of wheat has begun, with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) designating 18 collection depots as the country expects a bumper harvest owing to minimum interruption of power supply by Zesa, whic...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Con job' that cost Mnangagwa dearly
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's projected winter wheat harvest has been severely cut after the government failed to stop an invasion by quelea birds at his Kwekwe farm because authorities bought a wron...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
GMB deliveries surpass targets
THE Government said the 2021 traditional grains production has improved remarkably and some crops exceeded the highest ever tonnage since independence.Addressing journalists during a Post Cabi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Government takes action on quelea birds
THE Government is battling to contain quelea birds which have invaded Kwekwe district in huge flocks destroying wheat with the chemicals procured to deal with the menacing agricultural pests only expe...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 18:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Quelea birds invade Mat'land North
FARMERS in Nyamandlovu and Bubi, Matabeleland North province have started counting their losses after quelea birds invaded the area and feasted on their winter wheat crop.The birds are ranked ...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Failure to secure 'financial package scarring investors' reported Guardian - quelea home to roost
President Mnangagwa and his cronies started singing the sing-song "Zimbabwe is open for business!" soon after last November coup; it was way too premature to do so. Zimbabwe was a pariah state ruled b...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Makarau can register in the black-box BVS we demand meaningful democratic reforms
Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau, announced on Monday, with the usual fun-fare, that the country will be using the new biometric voting system (BVS). The Zanu PF pr...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 16:54hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Doctors to vote on strike action - if the situation does not demand it then nothing will
"Zimbabwe's doctors are voting on whether or not to stage a full-fledged strike, over salaries. Doctors started casting their vote yesterday, with the majority said to be in favour of a strike," repor...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 19:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
It is the economy stupid that will force regime change in Zimbabwe
"Zimbabwe owes Japan about $400 million - overdue debt. It owes the top five Paris Club creditor nations (Germany, France, Japan, UK and the US) $2,6 billion. Zimbabwe's debt is nearly $10 billion. Th...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 12:14hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Kasukuwere calls for end to Zanu PF infighting - first end the economic meltdown
Zanu PF Political Commissar, Kasukuwere calls upon party cadres to stop the infighting. He said the party's Harare leaders were fast losing discipline and respect for each other as evidenced by petiti...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe arrested Dzamara to avoid regime change - it is the path we choose to avoid our destiny that leads to it!
Sometimes one meets their destiny by the path they chose to avoid it! "Regime change" has been the one curse Mugabe and Zanu PF have left no stone unturned to avoid. And the regime has successfully a...Published: 14 May 2015 at 18:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe's imprisonment threat enough to scar the cowardly Mutasa!
Mugabe accuses Mutasa of embezzling party funds and imprisonment."... cheating and cheating and cheating and even cheating at high level of members of the politburo who divert funds in ord...Published: 02 Mar 2015 at 16:45hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Ibbo Mandaza predict positive change after Mugabe - all wishful thinking because fact say the opposite!
Zimbabwe has sunk to these nauseating depths of political chaos and economic despair because for 34 years we has elected to do nothing about building ourselves the shelter better able to withstan...Published: 04 Jan 2015 at 20:21hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Gumbo should stop wittering and tell the truth of Zanu PF's self-destruct gene Mugabe
Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, the fearless war veteran said his overplayed dismissal was a non-event that would not stop him from speaking frankly about the ugly goings-on in...Published: 05 Dec 2014 at 19:20hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, regime change is in her bed!
It is a well-known Zanu PF tactic to blame everyone else but themselves when things are not going their way. Grace Mugabe is a slow learner by all account but she has clearly learnt this tactic now. S...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe economic collapse is due to tyrant's incompetence
Mugabe did not mince his words when he address the UN General Assembly and once again blamed the "illegal sanctions" imposed on his regime by the "evil West" for all Zimbabwe's economic problems. The ...Published: 29 Sep 2014 at 14:01hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe is reintroducing Z$ in a vain attempt to avoid regime change
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa is proposing introducing a special Zimbabwe coin to compete with the basketful of other foreign currency in use in the country already. The regime is so desperate to...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 14:35hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
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