News from Zimbabwe

14-06-2011 10:03 AM
$100m to benefit farmers in Zimbabwe
OVER 800 000 communal farmers nationwide are set to benefit from the European Union’s US$100 million input support scheme for the 2011/12 croppi...
06-06-2011 09:23 AM
Efforts to Mechanise Agriculture Hailed
Government appreciates efforts by stakeholders that ensure mechanisation in the agriculture sector becomes a success, Minister of Agri-culture...
26-05-2011 09:57 AM
Cattle-Branding to Curb Rustling
All provinces in the country are to benefit from the cattle-branding programme by the end of July, Assistant Commissioner Bernard Dumbura has said.
20-04-2011 09:19 AM
Another white farmer to replace Bennett
MORGAN Tsvangirai’s MDC-T party is to nominate another former white farmer for the post of Deputy Minister of Agriculture...
26-03-2011 13:05 PM
Zimbabwe bans SA meat imports
Authorities in Zimbabwe Friday banned cattle and beef imports from South Africa...
25-03-2011 08:54 AM
Govt, Indonesia sign MoU on agriculture
Zimbabwe and Indonesia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate in developing the two countries’ agriculture.
21-03-2011 08:36 AM
Agribank recieves US$30m credit
Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Development Bank (Agribank) has received $30 million in fresh credit from the regional Industrial Development Corporatio...
08-03-2011 08:33 AM
Zimbabwe lifts SA meat ban
The Zimbabwe Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services has lifted with immediate effect the suspension on the importation of cattle, sheep and g...
27-02-2011 12:15 PM
Zimbabwe farmers target surplus harvest
Zimbabwean peasant farmer Munyaradzi Mudapakati gives a satisfied smile as he looks out at his lush maize crop, but he fears his good fortune will end...
19-02-2011 09:58 AM
Bumper tobacco harvest forecast
Zimbabwe is expecting a bumper tobacco harvest this year, with officials projecting output to be at least 40 percent higher...
01-02-2011 08:27 AM
Zimbabwe says China eyes $10bn investment
China Development Bank could fund up to $10bn in Chinese investment in Zimbabwe’s mining...
30-01-2011 10:19 AM
Mugabe 'being helped by diamond industry'
The global diamond industry has controversially cleared the way for President Robert Mugabe’s regime to raise millions of pounds from exports, a...
15-01-2011 09:29 AM
Zimbabwe's agriculture picking up
Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector, which had been sneezing all along, has finally woken up and is now performing well, The Zimbabwean on Sunday can ...
04-01-2011 10:28 AM
White farmer reclaims farm
Agriculture Minister Herbert Murerwa has confirmed that at least one white former commercial farmer has been allowed back on his land...
28-12-2010 11:38 AM
Cattle farmers urged over worm medicine
Cattle farmers in Zimbabwe have been urged to administer worm-killing medicine to their livestock to prevent diseases prevalent during the rainy seaso...
22-12-2010 10:08 AM
Mabambo blasts nationalisation plans
The party led by form Finance Minister Dr Simba Makoni, Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) has condemned Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF 11th Conference resoluti...
16-12-2010 08:40 AM
Council to sell stray cattle to finance budget
Mberengwa Rural District Council, which is struggling to sustain its 2010 budget of about $1,5 million, want to be given back powers to sell stray ani...
04-12-2010 12:14 PM
Recriminations as some white farmers return
AT least 120 evicted white farmers have returned to their former lands by setting up farms under leasehold deals with the beneficiaries of President R...
03-12-2010 20:45 PM
Land audit must result in fair land distribution
On Wednesday the acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement told the Parliamentary Portifolio Committee on Lands that ...
30-11-2010 09:04 AM
Robert Mugabe and his cabinet now own 5 million hectares of land
President Robert Mugabe, his loyalists in ZANU-PF, cabinet ministers, senior army and government officials and judges now own nearly 5 million hectare...
30-11-2010 08:40 AM
Be Innovative, Farmers Urged
Farmers must be innovative and apply resources diligently this farming season as there is not much coming their way from the little that was allocated...
12-09-2010 18:16 PM
Heavy rains destroy wheat crop
Most newly resettled farmers in Umguza commercial farms in Matabeleland North will not harvest their winter crop following the destruction of the crop...