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Zimbabwe moves to ensure wheat supplies
Harare (New Ziana) – As the Russia-Ukraine war and grain export curbs by Moscow push global wheat prices up, Zimbabwe has set in motion plans to secure wheat self-sufficiency, with a…
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TIMB tightens screws on tobacco side marketers
Harare (New Ziana)- The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) will implement stricter strategies to address side marketing of the crop during the 2022 selling season, an official…
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Zim expecting good, top quality tobacco
Harare (New Ziana)- Despite reduced expected volumes, Zimbabwe is expecting good quality tobacco which should in turn attract higher prices, the industry regulator said on Wednesday.…
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Good, big tobacco crop expected – TIMB
Harare(New Ziana) - In spite of weather-related challenges facing the current farming season, tobacco output is expected to remain at last year's levels when the country had ideal…
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Over 300k ha put under cotton
by Sharon Tawuya
Harare (New Ziana)-At least 311 955 hectares of land were put under cotton this cropping season, largely as a result of government support to farmers through…
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Govt forges ahead with development projects for rural communities
Harare (New Ziana) – The quest by the Second Republic to develop and empower rural communities is set to go a gear up this week with the commissioning of the One-Village-One-Borehole…
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President Mnangagwa rallies farmers
Bindura (New Ziana) – Inputs for this year’s summer cropping season will be availed timeously while adequate support will be rendered to farmers to ensure a bumper harvest, President…
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Fire destroys USD2.5mln worth of Cotton
Harare(New Ziana) - The Cotton company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) on Monday said it lost at least 1.2 million kg of cotton lint worth an estimated US$2.5m in a fire at a ginning site in…
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No more “free” loans – President Mnangagwa
Harare, (New Ziana) – The season of getting loans from government and not pay back the money is over, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Friday.
President Mnangagwa said this…
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Zim records bumper crop harvest
Harare (New Ziana) – Zimbabwe is poised to produce over 3 million tonnes of cereal including a record 2.8 million tonnes of maize, well above national requirements, a Cabinet Minister…
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