New firm to start local seed packaging

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro Senior Business Reporter ZimbaSeed, a fairly new seed breeding firm on the Zimbabwean market, intends to start drying and packaging its seed varieties locally in a development the company expects to significantly reduce operating costs and seed prices. Agriculture contributes approximately 17 percent to Zimbabwe’s gross domestic product. As the main source of livelihood […] …
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US$45m programme to catalyse renewable energy projects launched

Speaking during the launch of the SDG fund UN Zimbabwe Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Edward Kallon the current energy challenges, coupled with climate challenges call for one unified solution — a rapid and extensive adoption of Renewable Energy technologies in the country. Trust Freddy and Ivan Zhakata The Government, in partnership with the United Nations […] …
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Seed Co half year revenue rises

Group chief executive officer Morgan Nzwere Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Seed Co Limited’s revenue for the half year to September 30, 2022 grew modestly by 5 percent to ZWL$8.4 billion from ZWL$8.1 billion last year in inflation adjusted terms. Group chief executive officer Morgan Nzwere said the company posted a ZWL$2.6 billion […] …
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Bulawayo bus bedlam

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter Council in slumber as bus crews take over streets, disrupt traffic Drunken rowdy touts, vendors block pavements, suffocate business BUSINESS has slammed Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for failing to decisively deal with buses that continue to illegally use parking bays in the city centre as pick-up and drop-off points, saying this […] …
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Second Republic delivers on promises in Bulawayo

Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Senior health Reporter BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Judith Ncube has hailed the Second Republic`s engagement and re-engagement drive which has resulted in the construction of a state-of-the-art health centre in Cowdray Park suburb and the refurbishment of doctors’ residences at Mpilo Central Hospital. Both projects were completed in record time and […] …
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COMMENT: How does the mayor sleep at night?

Will order ever return to Bulawayo? Will the City of Kings and Queens ever be clean again? Will the law ever mean anything? We have tried to get city fathers and the police to act on illegal pick up and drop off points created by unruly transport operators but to no avail. Some of these […] …
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Nkulumane market takes shape

Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter A MASSIVE market place in Bulawayo, which will help decongest the city centre and redefine fruit and vegetable trading is taking shape in Nkulumane suburb. The fruit and vegetable produce distribution hub is being constructed near Nkulumane Mall where producers will be able to rent stalls and sell their produce. The […] …
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Goat population surges in Matabeleland South

Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Matabeleland South Bureau Chief FARMERS in Matabeleland South province have intensified commercial goat breeding activities which has seen the number of goats in the province rising to 700 000. Through the US$87 million Presidential Goat Scheme recently launched in Chipinge, Manicaland Province, President Mnangagwa has made it clear that it is no longer […] …
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