Horticulture farmers in Honde decry input costs

Honde Valley is a vast communal land, about 95km north of Mutare where production of coffee, bananas, sugar beans, avocados, yams and sugar cane is the major source of livelihood. Enacy Mapakame-Business Reporter Smallholder horticulture farmers in Honde Valley, the Manicaland Province, have bemoaned high costs of inputs, which they say are preventing them from […]
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Edgars back to profitability

The group managed to close 2021 with an improved performance over the year. Business Reporter Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed clothing manufacturer and retailer Edgars Stores returned to profitability in the financial year to December 2021 after recording a profit before tax of $590 million.  This comes after the group recorded a loss before tax […]
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Student develops anti-stock theft App

Farirai Masocha Sifelani Tsiko-Agric & Innovations Editor Farirai Masocha, a 21-year-old University of Zimbabwe Computer Science student has come up with a livestock tracking application that can work as a digital defence to help prevent stock theft and alert farmers to the condition of animals. The young innovator said the livestock application takes the traditional […]
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Science thrust begins to transform lives

The President reads the plaque he had unveiled during the commissioning of the acetylene gas plant yesterday. Political Editor PROJECTS that have been initiated and commissioned by President Mnangagwa in the past few years have transformed the lives of ordinary people through employment creation and increasing Gross Domestic Products (GDPs) of provinces regardless of whether […]
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Cop fined $40 000 for pistol whipping

Chido Nyamuyaruka-Court Correspondent  A police officer stationed at Borrowdale Police Station in Harare was yesterday fined $40 000 for hitting another man with a pistol butt. Elliah Chipanda (43), was further slapped with a wholly suspended two-month jail term after he pleaded guilty to the assault charges. Chipanda admitted to hitting Mr Calvin Chipfurutse when […]
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Monalisa defeats Aciro in Victoria Falls to retain title

Leonard Ncube in Victoria Falls Monalisa “Queen of the jungle” Sibanda lived up to her boxing moniker as she defended her WIBA intercontinental title against Uganda’s Small Valente Aciro here on Wednesday. Zimbabwe’s Sibanda said she fasted for three years asking God for the stamina to defend her title, and during that time she dated […] …
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Use of juju costs Maruwa his job

Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter NORMALLY coaches are fired for not producing results, but Black Rhinos’ coach, Herbert Maruwa has perhaps made his own piece of history after he lost his job on allegations of encouraging the use of Juju amongst his troops. Black Rhinos yesterday announced that they had parted ways with the Maruwa following […] …
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