LAST week, the Government of Zimbabwe announced that its Command Agriculture programme shall look to be financed by the banking sector. The country's planting season is already upon us. Field preparat...
By Chris Chenga | Published: 30 September 2019
Zimnat and THI Insurance, which earlier this year entered into an underwriting management agency agreement with Zimnat General Insurance, are jointly participating in this year's Agricultural Dealers'...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2019
GOVERNMENT is doing its best to bring about an economic turnaround and results will start showing in the coming few months, Acting President Constantino Chiwenga said yesterday. Addressing thousands o...
By Staff reporter | Published: 31 December 2018
Zimbabwe is prepared to provide guarantees to banks that will be financing agriculture to help plug the funding gap to the sector, according to Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube. ...
By Business Weekly | Published: 30 November 2018
THE deepening foreign currency crisis in Zimbabwe is hampering government's efforts to mechanise the agro sector through the Command Agriculture programme, the Office of the President and Cabinet said...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018
AGRIBANK has obtained a $30 million line of credit from the Industrial Development Corporation South Africa (IDCSA) to support the agriculture sector.The facility is favourably priced at Libor +8,9 pe...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 July 2018
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 ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2018
TWO victims of the bomb attack at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo on Saturday have died.The attack saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaping unharmed but 49 people who include Vice President Kembo Mohadi,...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2018
Zimbabwean banks - which include units of Standard Bank, Nedbank and Standard Chartered - are facing challenges in sourcing lines of credit, and this has seen their foreign liabilities declining, poin...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 June 2018
Zimbabwe's successful agro-import substitution programme, Command Agriculture, will not be a permanent feature and will be phased out once Government is convinced farmers can now mobilise own funding,...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 June 2018
UK based Mitah Group Ltd owned by Zimbabwean born entrepreneur Mr Michael Matope launches www.Farmvest.biz . Farmvest.biz - is Zimbabwe's first Agricultural investment Platform, it aims revolutionize ...
By Agencies | Published: 05 June 2018
SOME provinces are yet to receive teaching and learning material made available by the Government in February, a development that severely disadvantages affected learners under the new education curri...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018
Close to half a billion dollars has been secured for the 2018/2019 summer cropping season, as Government works towards food security and ensuring that the country's agro-based economy gets back on the...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) director Jeremiah Tevera, said surpassing the $143 million mark was achievable given the abundance of resources in the country as well as the industrious labou...
By Staff reporter | Published: 31 May 2018
Zimbabwe's main agro-import substitution programme, commonly referred to as Command Agriculture, requires close to $1,3 billion to take off as the country steps up efforts to raise local production an...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 May 2018
Member of Parliament for Mhondoro-Ngezi and socialite, Mike Gava, is reportedly unwell and is in Intensive Care Unit at a local hospital.Close family members confirmed that the legislator's condition ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2018
ZIMBABWEANS have lampooned opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa following his shambolic tour to the United Kingdom where he campaigned ahead of watershed elections set for later this year (July /August)....
By CAJ News | Published: 15 May 2018
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday handed over the first batch of 200 heifers to 66 cattle farmers from two provinces of Matabeleland North and South under the $300 million Command Livestoc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 April 2018
THE Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) is working with beverages manufacturer, Schweppes Zimbabwe to start a horticulture out-growers scheme for the production of produce that will in...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 March 2018
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 elated t...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 March 2018
LANDS and Agriculture minister, Perrance Shiri has said government will pour more resources to mechanise agriculture in order to boost productivity.Speaking at a SeedCo field day at Arnold Rattray Res...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 March 2018
The Zimbabwe Agriculture Society (Zas) is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to make this year's edition of the Harare Agriculture Show, to be held from August 27 to September 1, a success. Zas ch...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 February 2018
A ROW has erupted between parliament and Sakunda Holdings over a probe into the murky financing of government's command agriculture programme with the fuel supply firm attempting to block the inquiry ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 February 2018
A FEW days ago I listened to a business discussion that was made by a Zimbabwean business mogul at one of the prestigious universities in the United States of America. This was Mr Strive Masiyiwa, ch...
By Mhlupheki Dube | Published: 10 December 2017
GOVERNMENT is in the process of plugging leakages in the distribution of Command Agriculture and Presidential Agricultural Programmes inputs.The move comes after reports that Command Agriculture inpu...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017
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