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...
Aconsignment of 30 000 metric tonnes of wheat which was sourced from Lithuania by the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) is stuck at Beira port in Mozambique after the Reserve Bank of Zimba...
Government has moved in to secure 30 000 metric tonnes of wheat worth $12,2 million with a 20 percent down payment following threats by an international supplier to cut off the deal citing Harare's de...
ONE of the biggest millers in the country, National Foods Limited (NFL) says it will today switch off its wheat milling machines, citing non-payment of its foreign suppliers, with the country facing p...
ZIMBABWE was by yesterday left with less than a month of wheat stocks after a United Kingdom-based supplier held back a 30 000-tonne consignment at Mozambique's port of Beira until payment is confirme...
TWO of the country's biggest milling companies, National Foods Limited and Blue Ribbon Foods, have resorted to using reserve stocks of wheat due to severe shortages on the market, Standardbusiness has...
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe yesterday released the $20 million requested by millers to import part of the 200 000 metric tonnes of wheat from Canada and Germany to avert a bread shortage.The 200 000 ...
Government is expected to save $100 million through substituting a significant portion of wheat imports as it forecasts to produce between 180 000 metric tonnes (MT) and 200 000 (MT), which is half th...
ZIMBABWE will in two weeks complete a deal with Canadian wheat suppliers for 290 000 metric tonnes of wheat from the North American country up to December 2019.The deal followed a recent visit to Cana...
GRAIN Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) will next week send a 12-member delegation to Canada to sign a 200 000-tonne wheat deal, amid reports that the country's granary is depleting.Addressing j...
GOVERNMENT is targeting 350 000 tonnes of wheat in the next three years to guarantee sufficient domestic wheat supplies and to reduce reliance on imports. Zimbabwe needs about 400 000 tonnes of wheat ...
WHEAT farmers have so far delivered around 40 000 metric tonnes of wheat, with the Treasury targeting to pay all deliveries by year end. This year's wheat is expected to reach 200 000 tonnes from 65 0...
Zimbabwe could save over $100 million in foreign currency if it achieves wheat output of 200 000 tonnes this year, up from 65 000 tonnes attained last year. The expected rise in tonnage comes after Go...
A Command Agriculture wheat crop worth an estimated $15 000 was last week razed by fire, suspected to have been started by illegal settlers, who are angling to take over Amalinda Farm in Murombedzi, M...
Government is considering approaching the private sector to assist with storage facilities for wheat as the country's silos will filled with grain harvested during the 2016/17 summer cropping season, ...
ZIMBABWE will this year import about 345 000 tonnes of wheat as preliminary data indicates that the 2017 winter crop will produce an estimated 105 000 tonnes.The Grain and Feed Annual Report (GFAR) fo...
EIGHTY-SIX families resettled at ARDA Transau from Chiadzwa in 2010 are expecting a bumper wheat harvest from 40 hectares of land which they planted under Government's Command Wheat programme.Chairper...
NEWLY formed Zimbabwe Wheat Board (ZWB) is pushing for the introduction of a pricing structure in the sector, which will cater for different wheat varieties this coming marketing season.The goal is to...
THE Zimbabwe Wheat Board (ZWB) has pleaded with government to intervene over the soaring costs of wheat production.The ZWB yesterday met acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured), where they plea...
The contract farming arrangement between the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe and the Bakers Association has failed due to "poor long-term commitment".GMAZ president Tafadzwa Musarara told the in...
In a trading update the National Foods Limited CEO, Mr. Jerome Brookes highlighted that the first four months of trading has shown that turnover was up on prior year but profitability was lower due t...
LOCAL millers and bakers are today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for buying flour.Under the agreement, bakers will purchase 75% of monthly flour requirements from local millers. This a move exp...
Zimbabwe's winter wheat hectarage drastically declined from the anticipated 26 000 hectares to 3 000 hectares for the 2013 season because government was pre-occupied with funding electoral process hen...