Command Agriculture has seen Johanne Marange Apostolic Church in Manicaland venturing into a thriving fish farming project to boost nutrition, rural economic development and income generation. Speakin...
Tobacco farmers in Burma valley have now shifted to cigar wrapper farming so they could receive direct payments into their accounts for their crop.Tobacco Industry Marketing Board spokesperson Isheune...
DELTA Corporation says it has invested at least $2,8 million to facilitate the production of 10 500 tonnes of sorghum during the 2018 /19 agriculture season.Delta corporate affairs executive Patricia ...
CANADIAN investors are scouting for business opportunities in Guruve in a bid to secure 10 000 hectares of land for marijuana farming due to the area's favourable climatic conditions.Discussions are a...
LISTED beverages manufacturer, Delta Corporation Limited, says it has so far spent close to $3 million on its barley contract farming scheme targeting a yield of 33 000 tonnes this year.Over the years...
Government has expressed concern over the private sector's reluctance to provide significant funding support to agriculture, which provides a number of key raw materials required by industry for manuf...
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe says it has channelled $273.2 million towards financing the tobacco industry this year.The bank's head of corporate and investment banking, Mr Rhett Groves, said yesterday the su...
THE Government has secured $242 million from the European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation to support the agriculture sector in the 2017/18 farming season.According to the Common M...
Cooking oil manufacturer Surface Investments has devised a new mechanism for funding contract farming that prevents side marketing, an official said on Tuesday.Surface chairman Narottam Somani told Ne...
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...
Government is drafting a Statutory Instrument (SI) to guide contract farming and encourages farmers to switch to the arrangement.Farmers are in a dilemma due to lack of funding.Agriculture, Mechanisat...