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Cotton farmers’ arrears to be cleared
17 May 2024 09:15 GMT
ALL arrears owed to cotton farmers in both local and foreign currency will be cleared by the end of this month, Information minister Jenfan Muswere has said.
“All outstanding payments by the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe amounting to US$2.65 million and 2.8 …
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State to provide 13bn/- subsidy to tobacco farmers
16 May 2024 09:13 GMT
DODOMA: THE government will provide 13bn/- subsidy to tobacco farmers in 2024/25 financial year, to cut down the cost of agricultural inputs, Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe said yesterday.
He said the reason behind the government decision …
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Will genetically modified crops douse or heighten food insecurity?
15 May 2024 03:33 GMT
As the uproar generated by Nigeria’s adoption of genetically modified crops swells, stakeholders have continued to thrash claims of the initiative being the solution to food insecurity, raising safety posers that advocate must not gloss over, GBENGA …
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Amid Zimbabwe’s Mass Exodus, Meet the Doctors and Nurses Who Stayed Behind
13 May 2024 14:25 GMT
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — At five months pregnant with her second child, Vimbai started bleeding. She suspected a miscarriage and rushed to a public clinic for help. The attending midwife didn’t examine her, says Vimbai, who chose to use her middle name for fear …
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Outlook for 2024-25 global grains and oilseed production is promising
13 May 2024 12:25 GMT
A truck driver secures a cover over his cargo of corn maize after loading it from a cargo ship at the city port in Cape Town. File photo by Halden Krog/Bloomberg via Getty Images
On May 10, the United States Department of Agriculture released its …
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Africa: An emerging continent
10 May 2024 20:27 GMT
… trading blocs: the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the … series of Pakistan-Africa Trade and Development Conferences ( … made-up textile articles, cotton, rice, pharmaceuticals, beverages, apparel … , services, and produce by eliminating trade barriers and …
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Closing of Texas' last sugar mill may prelude concerning pattern for US farmers: 'We are in serious trouble'
09 May 2024 14:46 GMT
"I wish I could tell you we had all the answers and we were geniuses, and we were going to avoid what happened to the sugar mill."
by Jeremiah BudinMay 9, 2024
A megadrought fueled by the overheating of our planet and consequent changing weather …
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Low-hanging fruit in coffee farming
08 May 2024 01:49 GMT
The Sunday Mail
Word From The Market with Samson Tarusenga
ZIMBABWE is pinning its hopes mainly on the agriculture, mining, tourism and manufacturing sectors to realise the Vision 2030 goal of an upper middle-income economy.
The agriculture sector’s share …
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Better Cotton partners with WTO, FIFA
02 May 2024 17:59 GMT
… to better understand smallholder cotton farmer operations and needs.
… Mali, Mozambique and Côte d’Ivoire.
Better Cotton, the … and exciting region for cotton production and our expansion … , Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade Bank, Afreximbank, said …
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Top 5 African countries by textiles, apparel exports earnings in 2023
01 May 2024 15:06 GMT
… to aeronautics companies for their products.
Ethiopia: $2.5 billion – Ethiopia … such as Asian countries.
Lesotho: $1.2 billion – Lesotho is also a beneficiary … , with a long history of cotton production and textile manufacturing.
Stephen Ikechukwu …