In Zimbabwe, a tractor loaded with tobacco arrives at an auction floor in Harare driven by farmers from Hurungwe area, about 300 kilometers north of the capital. One of them is Felix Tarutsvira ...

Farmers must pay in USD but are partly paid in unstable local currency.Selling maize privately is illegal; state-set prices ...

Zimbabwe’s government says that for the first time in almost twenty years, the country will produce enough maize to feed itself this year. Maize production has been affected in recent years by ...

Ezimnyama - As Zimbabwe's farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not persuaded Sikhathele Sibanda to grow ...

Zimbabwe: Should We Keep Growing Maize, Eating Sadza Daily? 20 May 2015. The Herald (Harare) ... A few days later, the maize germinated and the whole field was a beautiful sea of green.

Zimbabwe's maize imports are set to decline significantly this year as better rainfall has boosted crop yields across the ...

Jambezi - For more than 20 years, Dalarex Ncube grew maize in arid Jambezi District, one of Zimbabwe's driest regions, and his family ate maize porridge, the national staple. But seven years ago, he ...

Maize is Zimbabwe's staple food but is prone to drought and its price has shot up by 50% this year. Skip to content. Watch Live ... to focus more on growing sorghum and millet ...

But low yields have forced the Svosves, who are subsistence farmers, to focus more on growing sorghum and millet - both of which were staples before Portuguese traders in the 1500s brought maize ...