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US lawmaker pushes Zimbabwe to repay white farmers

A US lawmaker has tabled legislation that seeks to block Zimbabwe from securing new funding from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank until it pays the $3.5 billion it owes to White farmers whose land was confiscated more tha…

Published: 17 Sep 2025 at 09:35hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe businessman dies by suicide

A well-known Bulawayo businessman has died by suicide, sparking shock in the local community and raising concerns about mental health pressures faced by entrepreneurs.The man, whose name is being withheld at the request of his family, was …

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:57hrs | 2240 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers warn of food shortages

Farmers' unions have warned that Zimbabwe may face food shortages despite forecasts of an early and above-normal rainy season.The Meteorological Services Department recently predicted that rains will begin earlier than usual, raising hopes…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:56hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa dangles US$2 billion loan facility

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled a US$1.98 billion loan facility to be rolled out over the next decade to help farmers boost productivity and withstand the impacts of climate change through an irrigation-focused package.The facili…

Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 07:49hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter

Woman in court for illegal abortion

A 30-year-old Bulawayo woman was on Thursday arraigned before the courts after she was allegedly caught trying to dump a foetus in a bushy area in Entumbane suburb.Rumbidzai Tanewe of Entumbane appeared before Western Commonage magistrate …

Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 16:19hrs | 549 | by `

Zimbabwe to set up fund to compensate farmers

The Government is working on plans to establish a compensation fund for farmers who lose crops to wildlife, particularly elephants, Environment, Climate and Wildlife Minister Dr Evelyn Ndlovu has revealed.She was responding in Parliament t…

Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 16:19hrs | 7 | by `

Zimbabwe tobacco farmers demand indigenous tobacco policy

The government has been urged to develop an indigenous tobacco policy aimed at promoting production and supporting farmers who form the backbone of Zimbabwe's golden leaf sector.Speaking at a recent conference in Harare, Zimbabwe Progressi…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 08:41hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter

Cotton farmers earn over US$3 million

Zimbabwean cotton farmers have sold more than US$3 million worth of seed cotton to the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) so far this season, with the state-run firm confirming it is paying growers entirely in foreign currency.Cottco acti…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:10hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean farmers embrace AI

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is advancing agrifood systems through integration of effective digital technologies in Zimbabwe. Through the Fostering Digital Villages Initiative (FDiVi), FAO hosted a Digi…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:25hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter

Farmers urged to adopt cluster farming

Farmers in Mwenezi East, Masvingo province, have been encouraged to adopt cluster farming as a strategy to increase production, enhance food security, and generate export-ready surplus grain.This call was made during a community empowermen…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:04hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter

Climate change takes toll on tomato farmers

For decades, villagers in Madzivazvido, Gokwe North, have relied on tomato farming to sustain their families and communities. But climate change is rapidly eroding this once-reliable livelihood, as soaring temperatures, disappearing wetlan…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:10hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter

Stinking school heads' great heist

Parents and guardians in Manicaland have raised alarm over what they describe as growing financial exploitation by school headmasters, who are allegedly misusing public funds and imposing unofficial levies under the guise of cultural and s…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter

Black and White farmers rebuild Zimbabwe's agricultural ties

In a field rich with paprika plants near the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation white farmer Daniel Burger and newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe - a black farmer who arrived with the land reforms of the early 2000s - stand side by side discus…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter

VFEX sees massive jump in Q1 turnover

The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) recorded a significant jump in trading activity during the first quarter of 2025, with market turnover reaching US$58.5 million â€” a 383 percent increase from US$12.11 million recorded in the same …

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:09hrs | 25 | 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 widespread side marketing as harvesting be…

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:08hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter

White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs

Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s.The then-51-year-old white commercial farme…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 814 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera

Farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures

A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe's land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal and said it wants to reopen negotiations with the government.The group has criticised…

Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:50hrs | 1142 | by Staff reporter

Farmers to claim offals, hides, heads, and hooves at Zimbabwe abattoirs

Livestock farmers will soon be able to reclaim the full value of their animals - including offals, hides, heads and hooves - after slaughter, as Government moves to amend Statutory Instrument (SI) 182 of 2000 on Agricultural Products Marke…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:41hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe white former farmers start receiving compensation

The Government of Zimbabwe has begun compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during the Land Reform Programme, marking a pivotal step in the country's efforts to resolve a decades-old issue and accelerate it…

Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers displaced by new city compensated

The Zimbabwean Government has initiated the compensation process for over 300 farmers whose land was repossessed for the development of the new city in Mt Hampden, with five farmers already receiving full payments. The remaining farmers ar…

Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 11:33hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter

Farmers in Matabeleland optimistic after rains

Farmers across Matabeleland are optimistic about a promising 2024/25 farming season following consistent rains that have rejuvenated crops, with the Government projecting a bumper harvest of 3.2 million metric tonnes of grain.The wet spell…

Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:07hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe begins compensation of BIPPA protected ex-white farmers

Finance and Investment Promotion Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced the commencement of compensation payments to farmers under a US$20 million facility allocated in the 2024 National Budget. The payments are targeted at farmers and invest…

Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 06:41hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF notes Zimbabwe, South Africa border management operational challenges

The Zanu-PF Economic Development Cluster embarked on a critical fact-finding mission yesterday to inspect several illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, as the Government ramps up efforts to combat illegal activities, including b…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:47hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers welcome pause in rains

Farmers in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North Province, have welcomed the temporary break in rainfall, as it allows them to apply much-needed chemicals to combat an outbreak of Fall Armyworm (FAW). The pest had begun wreaking havoc on crops …

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:42hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter

Farmers4ED provincial chairperson up for fraud

The Harare provincial chairperson for Zanu-PF affiliate Farmers4ED, Terai Mudzimukunze, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates' Court on allegations of defrauding the City of Harare's chief building inspector in a failed farm deal. Mu…

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:05hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland South farmers return to fields

Farmers in Matabeleland South province have taken advantage of above-average rains to cultivate 80% of the arable land in the region, following a severe drought that had devastating effects on livestock and crop production.The recent wet s…

Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:14hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe fails to pay white farmers who had land expropriated

White commercial growers in Zimbabwe said that the government has failed to pay part of $331 million in compensation to farmers for expropriating their land but reimbursed others who weren't part of the deal.In a joint letter to the financ…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 10:08hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter

Farmers, villagers live in fear as lion roams around

Farmers and villagers in Macheke, Mashonaland East province, have been restricted to their homes following reports of a fugitive lion that escaped from Nyanga and has been spotted in the area. The lion, which crossed the Mupfure River from…

Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:34hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers turn to maggots to survive drought

At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn.After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern Afric…

Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:28hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter

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-distributed inputs under key agricultural progr…

Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:11hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe will start to pay 444 white farmers after land grabs

Zimbabwe will begin compensating White farmers whose land was seized in 2000 and led to the decimation of agriculture and the economy.The government has cleared 444 former commercial farm owners to receive payment for improvements made on …

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:09hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter

Over 400 ex-settlers to get compensation

In a significant development for former farm owners, over 400 individuals have been cleared for compensation under the Global Compensation Deed, aimed at addressing losses incurred during Zimbabwe's fast-track land reform program. The gove…

Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:59hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter

Farmers4ED backs government's new land tenure policy

The ruling party's affiliate organization, Farmers for Economic Development (Farmers4ED), has expressed strong support for the Zimbabwean government's latest policy change, which allows beneficiaries of the controversial Land Reform Progra…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:32hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt in a fix as ZiG is rejected

The Zimbabwean government's efforts to promote the use of the Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG) currency have hit a major hurdle, as wheat farmers have refused to accept payment in local currency for their deliveries, demanding US dollars instead. This …

Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:30hrs | 5467 | by Staff reporter

Farmers, lithium miner clash

HORTICULTURE farmers in Goromonzi have accused the Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) mine of negatively affecting their socio-economic life, while others have welcomed the miner's activities in the area.Speaking during a public meeting organ…

Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Minister grilled over late payment of farmers

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube was on Wednesday grilled in Parliament over late payment of farmers for deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).Legislators from Zanu-PF and the opposition said they had received distress calls from farm…

Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers appeal for water tariffs review downwards

COMMERCIAL farmers have appealed to the Zimbabwe National Water Authority's (Zinwa) to revise water tariffs downwards saying the latest review from US$10, 76 to US$10 was negligible and therefore hardly felt, as they push to reduce product…

Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Insiza joint venture farmers table proposal to build dam

INSPIRED by the desire to enhance water harvesting and boost climate-proofed food production, seven farmers from Insiza District in Matebeleland South have availed a combined 700 hectares of land for cultivating different crops under irrig…

Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Farmers expect decent harvest

FARMERS are now expecting to get a decent harvest following the weakening of the El Nino phenomenon which was expected to cause severe drought in most parts of Southern Africa including Zimbabwe.Recent rains across the country have seen a …

Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Matebeleland farmers welcome cloud seeding, heavy rains loom

FARMERS have welcomed the Government's cloud-seeding programme to induce more rains saying the intervention is critical as they are desperate to boost production amid an El Nino season that is characterised by prolonged dry spells.The Gove…

Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:33hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's smallholder farmers migrate from maize

IN large parts of Africa, including Zimbabwe, maize is the main source of livelihood for smallholder farmers because it is a staple and cash crop.However, with the imminent threat of an El Nino-induced drought, the dependence on cereal cro…

Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers advised to replant failed crops

DRY land farmers should consider replanting after their initial crop suffered from moisture stress due to the prolonged dry spell between November and December.Weather projections indicate that Zimbabwe will this season receive below-norma…

Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:54hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front line in Robert Mugabe's policy of seizing white…

Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 5 | by Ben Farmer

Farmers struggle to service loans

FARMERS, who obtained loans through the CBZ Bank Agro Yield programme to finance their businesses during the last three farming seasons are having difficulty in repaying them, with official data showing a very low recovery rate.Some of the…

Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 8 | 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, farmers have planted 47,562 hectares of winte…

Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe debt clearance tied to farmers' compensation and credible polls

THE African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading efforts to clear Zimbabwe's crippling debt…

Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Zeenat Hansrod

2 farmers arrested over mbanje

POLICE in Macheke, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two neighbouring farmers who allegedly cultivated more than 100 marijuana plants in their maize fields.Kudakwashe Jarasi (37) and Suprise Chitate (age not given) of Plot 13 and 12…

Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Lightning kills 2 farmers in Zimbabwe

TWO young farmers under Chief Kazangarare in Hurungwe North district, Mashonaland West province, were killed by a bolt of lightning last week, police have confirmed.The now-deceased, Alec Mbomboya (24) and Owen Kawara (20), were killed whi…

Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 07:12hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Farmers defend raw sugar price increase

Small-scale sugarcane farmers, who supply 45 percent of raw sugar in Zimbabwe, have defended the new price of the commodity after Gold Star suspended production at its refinery in Harare this week citing high prices and unfavourable tradin…

Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | 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 small grains.Most farmers in Mtshingwe area of Zvishavane are staring at a succ…

Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 16:11hrs | 218 | by zbcnews.co.zw

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