Sunday Mail Reporter
Farmers and ginners have agreed on a minimum cotton producer price of US 35 cents per kilogramme, up from the previous US 30 cents. Most cotton growers expected the price to be pegged at US 70 cents to enable

Sunday Mail Reporter
Farmers have not yet started delivering maize to the Grain Marketing Board, more than a month after the marketing season opened.
Experts note that the late rains that the country experienced and the farmers’ lack

Emilia Zindi Agriculture Editor
Farmer organisations have hailed the passing of the Constitutional Bill in the House of Assembly last Thursday, describing the development as the beginning of a new era in the farming sector. All the 156 legislators who attended the

Faith Mhandu
Cotton growers will push to have the price of the crop pegged at 85 cents per kilogramme when stakeholders meet in Harare this week to discuss the producer price for the forthcoming marketing season.

Faith Mhandu
Speculative tobacco buyers who were banned from the country’s three auction floors have resurfaced, raising fears producers of the crop could lose substantial sums of money to the discredited purchasers. This comes as it emerged last week that over 30 000 bales of tobacco have been

Emilia Zindi Agriculture Editor
Farmers across the country have lost a cumulative 121 head of cattle to the lumpy skin disease which is threatening to decimate the national herd. Already, more than 1 000 other cases have been reported

Faith Mhandu
The continued firming of cotton prices on the international market should see cotton merchants who need to regain the confidence of producers considering offering back pays, farmer organisations have said. The price of the “white gold” has been firming over the past few weeks with a

Africa Moyo
Agribank has disbursed about US$9 million to farmers and agro-based companies under Government’s Agriculture Credit Facility. The facility is aimed at boosting food security. In an interview last Friday, Agribank chief executive officer Mr Sam Malaba said the financial institution has so far received

Agriculture Reporter
Zimbabwe has secured a foreign buyer for its burley tobacco under a long-term arrangement expected to significantly boost earnings from the crop.The country failed to attract buyers for the tobacco flavour in 2011 while only one buyer purchased the crop from one out of four centres last year.In an interview

The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has this year taken delivery of 84 200 tonnes, a massive decline from 202 000 tonnes that was delivered during the same period last year.

Emilia Zindi
Agriculture Editor
With less than a month before the onset of the rains,  preparations for the summer cropping season have began at a slow pace with stakeholders calling for Government to quickly come up with schemes to assist farmers.