AGRIBANK has availed a US$6 million facility to livestock farmers as part of efforts to boost livestock production across the country. The financial institution has said it is targeting beneficiaries ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 April 2019
ZIMBABWE's annual premier breeding livestock auction, National Bull Sale, saw the price for the most expensive beast in the bulls category vault 195 percent to $24 000 up from the $8 400 recorded at l...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 July 2018
PLAYERS in the livestock industry have hailed efforts by the Government to revive ailing meat processor and marketer, Cold Storage Company (CSC), describing them as a major stride towards enhancing th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
President Mnangagwa launched the Command Livestock programme at Gwanda Showgrounds yesterday and vowed his administration would prioritise economic development and not politics. He handed over 660 hei...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 June 2018
GOVERNMENT is anchoring the revival of the Cold Storage Company (CSC) on Command Livestock, with emphasis on artificial insemination, which has a 60 percent success rate for a new breed of bulls and h...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 May 2018
Government has started registering farmers who will benefit from the Command Livestock scheme in Beitbridge district, the district agriculture extension officer Mr Masauso Mawocha has said. Mr Masauso...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 May 2018
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday handed over the first batch of 200 heifers to 66 cattle farmers from two provinces of Matabeleland North and South under the $300 million Command Livestoc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 April 2018
BEITBRIDGE indigenous livestock farmers are keen to re-establish the dominance of the Tuli breed of cattle, which originated from the western tip of their district.Tuli is the name of a beef cattle br...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2018
THE Government has started registering farmers under the Special Livestock, Fisheries and Wildlife Programme.Agriculture, Lands and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Davis Marapira confirmed that reg...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 April 2018
THE Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (ZAS) in collaboration with the country's largest platinum producer, Zimplats has embarked on an extensive livestock revitalisation programme aimed at improving the q...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 February 2018
Government has with immediate effect introduced Livestock Development Levy that will affect people involved in the production of day old chicks, buying raw milk and slaughtering beef cattle. Producers...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 October 2017
Some microfinance institutions are now accepting livestock as collateral to help rural-based and young entrepreneurs access project financing, Standardbusiness has learnt.Since the start of the year, ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 August 2017
The looming command livestock programme has to prioritise regions that intensively keep livestock to avoid unnecessary abuse of government funds, Zimbabwe Farmers' Union (ZFU) vice-president, Phillip ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2017
Local agro start-up company, Remote Livestock Marketing System has done transactions worth US$3 million this year through its online livestock marketing platform, a company official has said. The comp...
By Business Reporter | Published: 13 November 2013
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