Zimbabwe's maize market has been thrown into disarray, just weeks after the government imposed a ban on imports citing a record 2024-25 harvest. In late August, authorities announced the ban, asserti...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2025
South Africa's Agriculture Minister, John Steenhuisen, has welcomed Zimbabwe's recent move to lift the ban on maize and other grain imports, officially gazetted under Statutory Instrument 87 of 2025.D...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 October 2025
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) Southern Region has welcomed the Government's move to lift Statutory Instrument (SI) 87 of 2025, saying the decision will help address maize shortages ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 September 2025
South Africa's maize industry is export-oriented. Over the past five years, the country has exported roughly three million tonnes of maize each year. One of its largest markets is Zimbabwe, typically ...
By Wandile Sihlobo | Published: 18 September 2025
Blue Ribbon Foods, Zimbabwe's second-largest milling company, has suspended operations at its Bulawayo plant due to a severe maize shortage, contradicting government claims of a national surplus.The c...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 September 2025
Government has proposed a planning price of US$380 per metric tonne for maize and traditional grains for the 2025/26 cropping season, a slight increase from the current US$376/MT. The adjustment is in...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 September 2025
The government says it is pleased with the steady flow of maize deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) following last year's poor season, which forced Zimbabwe to import grain.Agriculture Perma...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 August 2025
A local business, Natbase Investments (Private) Limited, has been fined US$300 after it was caught selling counterfeit maize meal falsely labelled under a prominent Zimbabwean brand.The company, repre...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2025
Zimbabwean farmers have significantly ramped up grain production this year, marking a powerful rebound from the devastating El Nino-induced drought of the previous season. The renewed agricultural mom...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2025
Zimbabwe's maize imports are set to decline significantly this year as better rainfall has boosted crop yields across the country, easing pressure on food security.According to the latest report by th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025
Africa University has launched a major initiative aimed at enhancing food security in Manicaland by training thousands of smallholder farmers in improved maize and sorghum farming techniques. The prog...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2025
Zimbabwe's maize production for the 2024/25 agricultural season is expected to fall short of the country's national requirements by 10% to 15% due to prolonged dry spells and erratic rainfall, accordi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2025
The Ministry of Agriculture is pursuing crop diversification in order to spread the risk of crop failure after the prolonged dry spells experienced in the 2019/2020 season led to low area planted and ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 April 2020
Some Zimbabweans without proper documentation were denied entry into Zambia last week as the neighbouring reacted to the confiscation of maize by Zimbabwean authorities following the introduction of S...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 July 2019
Farmers have delivered nearly 214 000 tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board since the beginning of the season in April, a senior official has said. The average weekly deliveries are 4 000 tonne...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018
Zimbabwe's maize output will fall short of a government projection of 2.1 million tonnes during 2017/18 agricultural season, a report by an economic advisory firm released last week indicates. The Eco...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 April 2018
Zimbabwe will face a shortfall in maize output in the current 2017/18 season on the back of erratic weather conditions with the hole expected to be plugged by carryover stocks from last season, the Fa...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 March 2018
Maize supply on the market has decreased due to anticipated poor harvests caused by the low rainfall experienced in the country from the start of the season up to February, the FEWSNET has reported. T...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 March 2018
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has approached the High Court challenging an order to pay $90 300 in damages to a company that had 22 of its trucks containing maize worth $1,5 million from Zambia i...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 March 2018
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) is seeking funds to buy maize driers to dry maize that will be delivered to their depots with moisture content above the recommended standard as it readies for this yea...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 February 2018
THE Government has said the nation should not panic over the erratic rains this cropping season because in the event of farmers failing to harvest, the country has enough grain reserves. The country h...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 January 2018
Zimbabwe's largest seed producer, SeedCo, says it is targeting to increase maize production in the small-holder sector by 275% from the current 0.8 tonnes to 3.0 tonnes. SeedCo Zimbabwe managing direc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 December 2017
GOVERNMENT says nearly 40 000 farmers have registered to grow maize during the 2017/17 farming season with over 170 000 hectares of land targeted for the crop.A total of 39 714 farmers, including inst...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 September 2017
ANNUAL demand for maize seed in Zimbabwe has increased 50 percent to 37 500 tonnes compared to 25 000 tonnes that was required prior the land redistribution programme in year 2000, while seed producer...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 September 2017
Grain deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board for the 2016 /17 farming season have tripled to 450 000 tonnes compared to the corresponding period, a senior Government has said. Farmers started deliver...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 August 2017
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