Zimbabwe: Agriculture Crucial to Economic Recovery

The World Bank says Zimbabwe's road to economic recovery will depend on favourable rainfall, which has implications for the success or failure of the agricultural sector. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Power Utility Switches Off Defaulting Mugabe, Mutsvangwa Farms

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, last week disconnected power supplies to farms belonging to former president… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Open Letter to the President (II)

Your Excellency, it is time we thought outside the box with regards to irrigated farming. Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S.$2 Million Injection Into Agric Stalls

A DEAL that would have seen a total US$2 million in foreign investment being injected into the country's agricultural sector has been put on ice after government introduced various… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Missing U.S.$3 Billion an Indictment On Mnangagwa's Govt

Revelations of possible abuse of funds under the controversial command agriculture scheme amid claims that there are no records and accountability of how close to US$3 billion was… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Agriculture Revival Critically Needed

Government last week said nearly seven million Zimbabweans, in both urban and rural areas, face starvation due to drought. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Open Letter to the President (Part I)

It is with a heightened sense of urgency and patriotism that I write this letter to you. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Grain Marketing Board Maize Monopoly Challenged

Two local businesspeople have approached the High Court seeking the invalidation of Statutory Instrument (SI) 145 of 2019 which gave the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) a monopoly over… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Power Outages Threaten Dairy Supplier

Dairibord Zimbabwe Holdings has been hit hard by the nationwide power outages, forcing the company to resort to diesel-powered generators which has proven costly to the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Local Milk Production Jumps By 13%

Milk production jumped 13% in the first half of 2019 buoyed by increased efficiency with the production target for the year set at 95 million litres, businessdigest has learnt. Read more »

Zimbabwe: U.S.$53 Million Compensation for Displaced Farmers Reconfigured to RTGS$

The US$53 million that was allocated in this year's budget to compensate white farmers, who lost farms during the chaotic land redistribution exercise of 2000, has been… Read more »

Zimbabwe: 'Farm Compensation to Cost At Least U.S.$10 Billion'

Government's decision to offer RTGS$53 million in compensation to white farmers who were dispossessed of their land has been met with mixed reactions. While some of the ex-farmers… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Milk Imports Set to Plunge 37%

IMPORTS of milk and milk-based products will decrease 37% in 2019 to US$29 million from US$46 million, driven by an anticipated 15% local production increase, businessdigest has… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Weird Dream of Bumper Harvest in Sahara Desert

"It was a case of smiling all the way to the bank for civil servants yesterday as the Government honoured its pledge to increase their salaries by 29 percent beginning this month." Read more »

Zimbabwe: Billions Possibly Missed Via Raw Tobacco Exports

As Zimbabwe prepares for the opening of the 2019 tobacco marketing season March 21, the local market is hyped up in anticipation. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Military Seizes Farmer's 100 Cattle

NEARLY a month after seizing 250-hectare Victory Farm belonging to Reverend Isaac Tititi Moyo at gun point in Kwekwe, the millitary has now confiscated the elderly cleric's herd of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Loses Mazowe Dam, Citrus

Former first lady Grace Mugabe's unbridled ambition to build a vast business empire in the scenic Mazowe area of Mashonaland Central province has suffered a major setback after the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Leveraging On Tobacco for Currency Stability

It is quite concerning that, given the abundance of natural resources commanded to her care by God, Zimbabwe continues to face currency instability. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Disease, Forex Shortage Cripple Dairy Farmers

Dairy production in the first quarter of 2018 has been hampered by the shortage of foreign currency and the prevalence of tick -borne diseases, businessdigest has learnt. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Tobacco Farming - a Bitter Harvest

The Zimbabwe Independent last week started serialising a summary of a research report by global human rights organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the tobacco growing sector in… Read more »

Zimbabwe: 'International Food and Value Chains the Way to Go'

Zimbabwe needs to develop strategies for it to participate in international food and agricultural value chains which will result in the country adding more foreign currency to its… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Fresh Row Over Command Agriculture

A row has erupted between parliament and Sakunda Holdings over a probe into the murky financing of government's command agriculture programme with the fuel supply firm attempting… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Agricultural Revival Lessons From Zambia

Last week, the Commercial Farmers' Union sounded said the supposedly revamped 99-year lease for Zimbabwe may not be attractive enough to lure back commercial farmers who were… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Govt Must Support Agric Insurance

Unpredictable rainy seasons, livestock and crop diseases outbreaks, uncertain markets and other risks in the agricultural sector call for appropriate insurance packages for the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Restore Property Rights On Agric Land

Politicians, during recent upbeat and optimistic presentations, have often repeated the statement that Zimbabwe will never go back on land reform. They appear to be suggesting that… Read more »