LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Winter wheat production takes off in Matebeleland South

Matebeleland South Province is ramping up preparations for the 2025 winter wheat season, with land preparation currently underway and a target of cultivating 2,300 hectares - a modest increase from la...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Tobacco crop faces new disease threat

Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe are grappling with a growing challenge as the destructive Fusarium Wilt Disease (FWD), which primarily affects the prized gold leaf, continues to spread across several dist...

Tobacco crop under threat from fungal disease

Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers are facing a major crisis as a destructive fungal disease, Fusarium Wilt and Root Rot (FWRR), spreads across fields, threatening the country's lucrative tobacco industry.Far...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

'Rains come late, no hope for crops'

A SENIOR agronomist in Manicaland has expressed pessimism that the rains received starting on Wednesday will do much to rejuvenate crops and improve yields.Provincial agriculture extension officer (Ma...

BUSINESS NEWS

Dry spell renders crops a write-off

LANDS, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Davis Marapira has said about 30 percent of the country's crops are a write off due to the prolonged dry spell that has hit the country.The co...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Crop situation gets dire

Erratic rains and high temperatures being experienced countrywide have resulted in crops wilting, with farmers in some areas already counting losses as their maize is now a write off.The worst affecte...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Winter wheat output to rise

ZIMBABWE will this year import about 345 000 tonnes of wheat as preliminary data indicates that the 2017 winter crop will produce an estimated 105 000 tonnes.The Grain and Feed Annual Report (GFAR) fo...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Zim 2014 Tobacco crop seen beating 2013 Harvest by industry

Zimbabwe's output of tobacco this year may exceed 2013's harvest as the number of farmers registered to grow the leaves surged 32 percent, the head of the nation's marketing board said."Although we do...