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Zimbabwe govt mobilises for timely grain payments
The government is mobilising resources to ensure prompt payment for up to 150 000 metric tonnes of grain and oilseed deliveries following an improved 2024/25 agricultural season, Information, Publicit...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:51hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Cotton farmers want immediate price talks
Zimbabwean cotton farmers are pressing the Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) to urgently initiate price negotiations for the 2025 marketing season, warning that any further delay could trigger wid...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:08hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Shun Sidemarketing, tobacco farmers warned
Contracted tobacco farmers have been warned to shun side marketing by senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa while urging them to fulfill their contractual obligations and deliver all their crops to the mer...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 12:16hrs | 175 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bogus cops jailed 30 years
Three armed robbers who were terrorising bar patrons and families while pretending to be police detectives in Mvurwi have been sentenced to 30 years behind bars by regional magistrate Shingirai Mutiro...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 13:38hrs | 1385 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Farmers face fines for diverting agric inputs
The Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama) has expressed serious concern over the rising cases of input abuse and side marketing, issuing a stern warning to farmers caught misusing government-distribu...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:11hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Seed Co sues contract farmer US$270,700
Seed Co Limited has emerged victorious in its legal pursuit against soya bean farmer Christian Falkenberg, successfully recovering US$274,768 after he failed to fulfill the terms of their crop financi...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:50hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Gold output rebounds after Govt intervention
Gold deliveries by small-scale miners to Fidelity Gold Refinery have rebounded to January 2024 levels after the reversal of a 15 percent value-added tax (VAT) on gold deliveries. In the second quarter...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity Gold Refinery gold supply zero-rating policy shows promise
The zero-rating of gold deliveries to Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) has started bearing fruits as the local currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) continues to strengthen while gold miners have been allevia...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 17:17hrs | 85 | by Tonderai Ndoro
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
Bogus cops arrested for armed robbery
FOUR armed robbers who were terrorising bar patrons and families while pretending to be police detectives in Mvurwi have been arrested after committing a spate of crimes around the area.Police...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga launches tobacco marketing season
VICE President General Retired Dr Constantino Chiwenga today officially launched the tobacco marketing season in Harare.Ministry of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting S...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 14:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe millers welcome maize import ban
GRAIN millers have welcomed government's decision to suspend the importation of maize meal to protect millers from unfair pricing by "opportunists."Speaking at a meeting for the Northern Regio...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 6 | by Victor Bhoroma
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Exclusive USD pricing illegal'
PRICING of goods exclusively in US dollars remains completely illegal and businesses not accepting local currency payments for every product should stop the illegal practice forthwith or risk having t...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Monetary policy inconsistency sinking economy
On the 17th of May 2022, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued a circular cancelling the order announced by the head of state on the suspension of bank lending one week earlier. The head of state ...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Grain runs out in Zimbabwe?
MILLIONS of Zimbabweans will go hungry as the country faces a severe grain shortage.A poor rainfall season and hoarding of maize by farmers demanding payment in United States dollars have exac...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Police, soldiers to raid maize hoarders
GOVERNMENT has deployed soldiers and other state security organs to raid and seize grain from individuals, farmers and other players even at roadblocks and deliver it to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmers warned
Zimbabwe's Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) said it was pushing for a legal instrument to deal with the side marketing of tobacco by farmers during the 2022 selling season.According...Published: 27 May 2022 at 13:23hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
RBZ shelves plans to sell gold buying unit
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has indefinitely suspended plans to dispose of its controlling stake in the country's sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refinery, to new shareholders, a senior ...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Pegged exchange rate unsustainable
Zimbabwe's export receipts for the first 9 months of 2021 jumped 38% to US$6.10 billion from US$4.43 billion realized in the same period in 2020. Notable improvements have been realized in internation...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:37hrs | 13 | by Victor Bhoroma
Kazembe Kazembe calls for more police patrols
Police need to intensify deployments and patrols in the wake of rising rates of violent crimes so far this year, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe has said.Speaking a...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:52hrs | 9 | 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 | 15 | by Staff reporter
Inside the cotton value chain
Cotton has been grown in Zimbabwe from as far back as 1940, even though production was enhanced after the establishment of the Cotton Marketing Board (CMB) in 1969. The white Gold is the second most i...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 13 | by Victor Bhoroma
Import Substitution: A case for soya beans
For the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has produced an average of 56 000 metric tonnes (mt) of soya beans per year against national demand of 240 000 mt for food, animal feed and industrial consumption. In t...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 40 | by Victor Bhoroma
Wheat, barley side marketing criminalised
Farmers can only sell their wheat or barley to either the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) or companies they have standing agreements with, as side marketing the crops is illegal, Government has said....Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 06:28hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Mealie-meal price to go down
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has welcomed Government's position to stop issuing maize and mealie-meal import permits with effect from end of the month, as the country is on course for a m...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unresolved economic issues for 2021
The Zimbabwean economy has experienced a period of relative stability since October 2020, even though multiple reforms have to be implemented to attain sustained economic growth. To a larger extent th...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe's gold loses glitter
Zimbabwe's gold export receipts plummeted 46% to record US$53.1m in January 2021 from US$98.1m during the same month last year due to delays in payments and heavy rains, the Reserve Bank (RBZ) has sai...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The soft peg and local economic stability
Zimbabwe introduced the Dutch inspired foreign exchange auction system on the 23th of June to replace the fixed exchange rate (hard peg) of US$1: ZW$25 that had been in existence since 26 March 2020. ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:58hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe mineral exports exceed target
ATTRACTIVE international prices for major minerals except gold, coupled with stability in the mining sector despite the COVID-19-related lockdowns has seen Zimbabwe's mineral exports exceed the projec...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Key pieces to Zimbabwe's $12 billion mining industry
In October 2019, the Zimbabwean government tabled an ambitious policy document that aims to turn the mining sector in the country into a US$12 billion industry by 2023. Achieving that export target wi...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:54hrs | 3 | by Victor Bhoroma
Key pieces to Zimbabwe's $12 billion mining industry
In October 2019, the Zimbabwean government tabled an ambitious policy document that aims to turn the mining sector in the country into a US$12 billion industry by 2023. Achieving that export target wi...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 12:27hrs | 19 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Cartel mops up Zimbabwe's gold
Zimbabwe's new monetary reforms and unfavourable prices being offered by authorities have given life to side marketing in the gold sector following the emergence of a powerful cartel comprised of top ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's prosecution unit moves in to tackle deep-rooted corruption
An investigation by the Special Presidential Prosecution Unit (SPPU) has unearthed a cartel of senior executives at Cottco together with a group of high profile politicians as being behind a spate of ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri takes a swipe at agricultural authority
Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Perence Shiri, has taken a swipe at the Agricultural and Marketing Authority for weak regulatory enforcement in cotton marketing, warning drastic ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt fuels gold sector chaos
Government is fuelling corruption tendencies in the gold mining sector by failing to give miners the value of their product, Finance and Economic Development deputy minister Terence Mukupe has said....Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to realign Stop Order Act
GOVERNMENT has been urged to revisit the Farmers Stop Order Act, in order to protect contractors and all financial institutions against small scale tobacco farmers who are side-marketing their crops....Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmer jailed 90 days for side marketing his crop
A 43-year-old Guruve farmer was jailed 90 days on Friday for side marketing his tobacco crop after he had been contracted by Mashonaland Tobacco Company (MTC).Guruve magistrate Mr Artwell Sany...Published: 20 May 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tobacco now under Command Agriculture
The 2018 tobacco season started yesterday with Acting President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga indicating that tobacco will now be covered under the Command Agriculture Programme."I am e...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
No to fresh farm occupations, says Shiri
Government is pushing the issuance of 99-year leases and will not tolerate fresh farm occupations to ensure Command Agriculture succeeds as envisaged under Zim-Asset, a Cabinet minister has said....Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 00:42hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Farmer in trouble for side marketing
A Tobacco farmer from Mvuramachema farm in Guruve, Mashonaland Central was fined $150 for side marketing.He is accused of contravening section 24(1) (a) of Stop Order Act chapter 18:11....Published: 08 May 2017 at 22:23hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tobacco farmers should be educated on e-marketing
The 2017 tobacco selling season kick-started on a very high note this week with high expectations that the golden leaf will ease the liquidity challenges the country is currently facing. Tobac...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta
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
Cash shortages threaten gold output target
THE cash shortage being experienced in the economy is threatening to scuttle the 24 tonnes gold target that the government set for this year. Latest figures from Fidelity Printers and Refiners, the so...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Zigara
Zim generates US$684,4 million from gold exports
ZIMBABWE generated US$684,4 million from gold exports last year, with small-scale miners accounting for more than US$273 million, or 40 percent of total exports, as the country's output of the metal c...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:34hrs | | by Africa Moyo
Stop Order Act to be amended
Government will amend the Stop Order Act in an effort to protect lending institutions and curb side marketing of crops.It is anticipated that the move will help improve financing of agricultur...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
GMB pays $67,8m to farmers
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has cleared $67,8 million it owed to farmers for grain deliveries made between 2013 and this year. Announcing the 2016 national budget last week, Finance and Economic D...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:42hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Farmers urged to desist from side marketing
Harare - Soyabean farmers were on Wednesday urged to employ correct measures for marketing in order to realize good returns.Soya bean contributes at least 30 percent of all the cooking oil pro...Published: 30 Jul 2014 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Portia Sigauke
Zimbabwe expecting 3300MT of sugar beans
Harare - Zimbabwe is projecting to produce 3300 metric tonnes of sugar beans this year following an increased number of small holder communal farmers taking up the crop which has ready markets, an...Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 10:17hrs | 2 | by Portia Sigauke
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