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Zimbabwe ups wheat production momentum
As early morning mists lift over Zimbabwe's farming belts, tractors roar to life and irrigation pivots sweep across golden fields, signaling the start of the 2025 winter wheat season. The Government b...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:06hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Belarus to establish bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe
Belarus is set to establish a bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe by December 2025, further cementing the growing ties between the two nations. This announcement was made by Mr Pearson Chigiji,...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:18hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Zadzamatura projects bumper harvest, as winter wheat cropping nears
Fast growing agricultural seeds company, Tocek Zadzamatura has projected a bumper harvest from 2024/25 farming season throughout the country (from contracted and non-contracted farmers who use their v...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 10:35hrs | 225 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Mhondoro
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 | 238 | 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 | 175 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's farm blows away Masisi
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi was deeply impressed by President Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm, located near Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, describing it as the "Garden of Eden" due to its lush green fields of wh...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:06hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economic growth unstoppable,' claims Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa, in his address at the 44th Heroes Day commemorations at the National Heroes’ Acre, emphasized Zimbabwe's unstoppable economic growth, driven by the sacrifices of the nation's li...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 17:12hrs | 222 | 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 | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pleads with Zimbabweans to embrace Zimdollar
TREASURY boss Mthuli Ncube has pleaded with Zimbabweans to embrace the local currency for the country to achieve growth and stability objectives of National Development Strategy 1 economic blueprint....Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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 showi...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe agrees to sell maize to Rwanda, opens talks with neighbours for wheat exports
Zimbabwe is to export 10,000 tonnes of maize to Rwanda and is in talks to export part of its wheat stocks to neighbours, Cabinet says.The government says the Grain Marketing Board is currently...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 17:40hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Makoni voters urged to reward Mnangagwa
Voters in Makoni District have been urged to vote for Zanu-PF in the forthcoming harmonised elections as the party has performed wonders in the last five years through various infrastructure developme...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records highest tobacco output in 198 years
Zimbabwe has recorded the highest tobacco output in its 198 years of growing the crop.The milestone follows another agriculture success story that resulted in last year's wheat output being th...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to surpass wheat output
Zimbabwe is optimistic that this year's winter wheat production will surpass last year's yield of 375 000 tonnes following various interventions implemented by Government and the private sector to bol...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:07hrs | 2 | 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...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa dedicates 120MW for winter wheat farming
With planting of the 2023 winter wheat already underway in some parts of the country, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has pledged to provide uninterrupted electricity to farmers to al...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3,000 hectares of wheat in Mat North
FARMERS in Matabeleland North have increased their wheat hectarage from last year's 950 hectares to about 3 000 hectares as the province moves towards enhancing the country's food security and attainm...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mtshabezi greenbelt transforms rural agriculture
AN 87-year-old dream turned into reality following Government's bold move to transform Mtshabezi Irrigation Scheme in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, into a greenbelt in line with the Second Repu...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says military ready to deal with Zimbabwe's detractors or their puppets
ZIMBABWE will not brook any evil machinations meant to weaken the country's State security sector which is ever ready to deal with any mischief from either the country's detractors or their puppets po...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bread prices set to drop?
BREAD prices are set to drop after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) pledged to prioritise foreign currency allotments to the National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe to facilitate the importation of ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA embarks on massive disconnections
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has embarked on a massive nationwide electricity disconnection exercise as part of their credit control mechanism.In a public notice the power ...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Private sector makes inroads into wheat production
PRIVATE sector investment into Zimbabwe's agricultural sector continues to rise, accounting for 63% of the wheat output last year, the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has said.AMA said ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New dam, new power plant
An electricity generating plant will be built at every new major dam under construction to address power outages affecting the agricultural sector, a Cabinet minister has said.Government is pr...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bread price set to rise
ZIMBABWE'S baking sector has been thrown off balance by escalating fuel prices and deadly power cuts that have recently rattled the economy.So dire is the situation that some baking industry e...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:39hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ultimatum for defaulting farmers
Farmers financed under Command Agriculture have until November 30 to deliver their maize to the Grain Marketing Board or be blacklisted so they can not access any more Government-guaranteed loans and ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
One of Hwange generators unit back on grid
One of Hwange Thermal Power Station's two largest boiler-turbine-generator units went back on the grid on Monday giving Zesa an extra 150MW and Zimbabweans can expect the ongoing load shedding to ease...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 8 | 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
Inflation pressures have dissipated, claims Mangudya
THE country's success in taming inflationary pressures has created a conducive fiscal and monetary environment essential to support the ambitious 7,8 percent economic growth target this year, Reserve ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Massive jump in wheat hectarage
Farmers have planted wheat on 66 435 hectares this winter, the third highest hectarage since independence and 50 percent more than last year, giving hope that Zimbabwe will hit self-sufficiency or get...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's sister, Minister feud over farm escalates
THE feud between Mashonaland Central Provincial Minister Monica Mavhunga and the former First Lady, Grace Mugabe's sister, Rosemary Chidhakwa has escalated after the minister counter-sued the latter a...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We've enough water for wheat irrigation, says Masuka
AGRICULTURE minister Anxious Masuka yesterday said the country had enough water to meet winter irrigation targets following the heavy rains received between November last year and last month.S...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
So Bishop Lazi heard that his treatise on the proposed Patriot Bill, which is premised on giving sellouts and other quislings of hostile forces their just desserts, had riled the runaway fugitive Prof...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister fires manager on the spot
Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Anxious Masuka fired the head of an Agricultural Rural Development Authority (Arda)-run agriculture scheme in Lupane on the spot...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Stembile Mpofu
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
Thunderstorm to hit Matabeleland
VIOLENT thunderstorms and hail are expected to hit the southern parts of the country but farmers have been told that this does not mark the start of the 2020/21 rainy season.The rains are expe...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chasi excelled as Energy Minister, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has inadvertently admitted he fired a competent minister, Fortune Chasi, who ensured the country had uninterrupted power supplies during his tenure.Chasi was relie...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes more power imports from Mozambique
GOVERNMENT is negotiating with Mozambique for up to 400MW of electricity to continue alleviating power outages facing the country, the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Advocate Fortune Chasi ...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bread shortages loom
A bread shortage is looming after local millers ran out of wheat due to foreign currency shortages to import the cereal. The country has been facing challenges in wheat availability of late in...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zvinavashe's widow loses farm to Chinese
The widow of national hero Vitalis Zvinavashe has lost a huge chunk of her Norton farm to a Chinese company that was allegedly given the land to set up a ceramic tiles factory under controversial circ...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 18:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri rules out bread shortage
Government has ruled out the possibility of bread shortage in the country as mechanisms have been put in place to import wheat in the short-term. Further, Government wants to boost wheat cropp...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Con-Court must be free to decide,' says Chiwenga
The Constitutional Court should be allowed to deal with MDC-Alliance application challenging President Mnangagwa's victory in the harmonised elections without undue influence from anyone, Acting Presi...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe allies properties looted
POLICE and the military yesterday jointly launched a crackdown on suspected rogue elements, who took advantage of last week's fluid political environment, and went on a looting spree targeting top Zan...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Bona Mugabe's wheat farm gutted by fire
Zimbabwe may have entered a new era but it seems some criminal elements are not heeding the call of the Defence Forces and instead are going on revenge missions to settle old scores.In a video...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 15:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prisons boss sued for $137,000 over 'debt'
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) boss Paradzayi Zimondi has been dragged to the High Court by the Zimbabwe Farmers Development Company (ZFDC) for allegedly failing to service a $137 0...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
10 hectares of wheat crop perishes at Pot Bury Irrigation Scheme in the Mbalabala
MEMBERS of Pot Bury Irrigation Scheme in the Mbalabala area of Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South are in despair as their prospects of salvaging anything from their wheat crop have all but vanish...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
320 jobs created in Maphisa
ABOUT 320 jobs have been created at the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) Antelope Estate in Maphisa, Matobo District, alone through revitalised agricultural production, Acting Presi...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa shrugs off Jonathan Moyo criticism
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans not to be distracted by the vilification of Government's initiatives to revive the agriculture sector in the private media as the bumper harvest...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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