The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board have announced payment modalities to tobacco farmers although failing to meet all of the demands, which had been put forward by th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 March 2020
At least 21 former Stanely Farms (Pvt) Ltd residents in Chegutu, have been slapped with an effective one year jail term each for contempt of court after refusing to vacate the farm in defiance of a co...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 June 2019
THERE was mayhem at Agribank Mvurwi and Voedesel Tobacco Company on Wednesday afternoon after tobacco farmers failed to access their hard-earned money supposedly transferred into their bank accounts b...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 June 2019
THE Government has started working on modalities to compensate former white commercial farmers who lost land during the country's agrarian reform programme on improvements they made on the farms with ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 May 2019
AT least 900 white former commercial farmers who lost land during the country's agrarian reform have registered for compensation as Government intensifies efforts to pay them for improvements they mad...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2019
GOVERNMENT is in the process of contracting more wheat farmers for the winter cropping season, an Agritex official has said. Manicaland Agritex Livestock and Crops officer Mr Cephas Mlambo said they w...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2019
Since the beginning of the tobacco marketing season on March 20 this year, the disappointment by expectant farmers continues to grow by the day.A toxic cocktail of low prices - despite an arguably qua...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2019
FARMERS are saying the interest rates being charged by banks are stifling the growth of the agricultural sector.Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union (ZCFU) president Mr Wonder Chabikwa said the interest...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 December 2018
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) should extend its 20 percent forex payment scheme to all farmers other than cotton and tobacco growers so as to enhance increased agricultural output. In an intervie...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 December 2018
Farmers in Mashonaland West Province are counting their losses after their early planted crop failed to germinate. As a result, they are being forced to buy more inputs including seed, weed control ch...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 December 2018
Tobacco and cotton growers will be paid 20 percent of their produce in foreign currency in the next marketing season while the Government will retain the remainder to help meet imports of essential co...
By Business Weekly | Published: 07 December 2018
WHITE farmers in Zimbabwe, who were evicted from their properties years ago, have been experiencing a drop in food production, and their hope to get government financial help to compensate any losses ...
By newsweek | Published: 06 December 2018
FARMERS, particularly in dry regions, have been challenged to adopt good agronomic practices in order to reduce the effects of climate change.SeedCo agronomy and extension service manager John Bhasera...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 November 2018
White farmers in Zimbabwe, under the ambit of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), have expressed interest in working with the Government and contributing towards the success of the country's agricultu...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2018
One of former Wakefield Estate owners, Andrew Dawson, has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to prohibit former Zanu-PF youth leader Kudzanayi Chipanga from taking over his assets.Dawson and C...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 September 2018
The Swiss food multi-national Nestle is investing $1.25m (£1m) in Zimbabwe to help revive its coffee industry, news agency Bloomberg reports.It is set to buy nearly all the coffee produced by the cou...
By BBC | Published: 06 September 2018
PLAYERS in the livestock industry have hailed efforts by the Government to revive ailing meat processor and marketer, Cold Storage Company (CSC), describing them as a major stride towards enhancing th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) yesterday responded to the story 'Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint' that it had forcibly evicted the cleric, claiming that no force was use...
By Staff Writer. | Published: 20 July 2018
Local farmers have been urged to grow sesame seeds for export with indications that global imports of the oldest oilseed crop raked in $2,2 billion in 2017.Sesame seed is one of the oldest oilseed cro...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 July 2018
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today had an interactive meeting with farmers and stole the hearts of white commercial farmers after telling them they are a part of the Zimbabwean family and should play ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 July 2018
TOBACCO farmers have been urged to take heed of expert advice and destroy tobacco stalks on time in order to safeguard future high yields. In an interview with The Herald recently, an Agritex officer ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 July 2018
PROMINENT Marondera farmer and businessman, Johanne Boreman, is battling for his life at a local private hospital following an attack by suspected robbers on Sunday night. After the attack, the suspec...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2018
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has, in the event of winning this month's crunch national elections, ruled out his government repossessing land from thousands of people who benefitt...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2018
Zimbabwe's former commercial white farmers are hoping that a new dialogue with the government over compensation for lost properties will succeed and help send a positive message to foreign investors o...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 June 2018
White farmers who remained after the fast-track Land Reform Programme should continue with their activities, as the new dispensation treats all Zimbabweans equally. Minister for Manicaland Provincial ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 June 2018
Concern over Masvingo black market 
Kenya declares three days of mourning for Mugabe 
UK's Boris Johnson quits over Brexit stretegy 
SecZim licences VFEX 
Zimbabwe abandons debt relief initiative 
European Investment Bank warms up to Zimbabwe 
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