Day: March 25, 2024
‘Tobacco price increase too little to match cost of production’
TOBACCO farmers have described the current 13 percent increase in tobacco prices as a far cry of what is required to both offset the seasonal cost of production currently hovering around 45 percent and improve their welfare. Zimbabwe Progressive Tobacco Farmers Association (ZPTFA) president Mr Mutandwa Mutasa said the latest price increase was lower than […]
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Govt has enough to feed 2,7 million food insecure people
Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter Government has enough grain in stock to feed 2.7 million people who were food insecure from last year up to June and plans are in place to feed those with deficit this year, Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo has said. Minister Moyo said they will be expecting an increased […]
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Old mine dump turned into mega solar farm
IN an impressive feat of environmental rehabilitation and green energy transformation ingenuity, a local mining company has turned a decades old waste dump site that was an environmental ticking time bomb threatening the lives of humans and livestock into a solar farm that feeds electricity into a whole gold mining entity in Bubi District, Matabeleland […]
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