Maravi

(ZBC NEWS, ZIMBABWE) Land Reform and Agriculture in Zimbabwe

New tillage & combine harvesting rates announced
Posted: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:04:02 +0200

The government has announced new tillage and combine harvesting rates for the 2008 winter cropping season.

In a statement, the Minister of Agricultural Engineering, Mechanisation and Irrigation, Dr Joseph Made, said these rates pertain to government related institutions such as the District Development Fund and ARDA, that provide agricultural tillage and combine harvesting services subsidised by the government.

The rates differ according to the operation. This year’s boom spraying will cost $891 931 500 per hectare and $892 384 500 per hectare for the dry and wet rate respectively.

The dry rate is when the service provider supplies the machinery only, while the wet rate also includes fuel.

Combine harvesting rates for this season will be $6 243 376 for the dry rate and $6 245 460 for the wet rate.

Other rates include those for disking, land rolling, lime spreading, planting, ploughing, ridging, ripping and vicon spreading.

Dr Made appealed to the private sector companies providing maintenance services to be reasonable in charging for the services provided to farmers.





http://www.newsnet.co.zw/index.php?nID=12418

Continue farming activities-Msipa
Posted: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:05:50 +0200

The Governor and Resident Minister of midlands province Cde Cephas Msipa has urged farmers in Gokwe to continue with their farming activities despite the previous poor farming season.

The Governor and Resident Minister of midlands province Cde Cephas Msipa has urged farmers in Gokwe to continue with their farming activities despite the previous poor farming season.

He said this while distributing ox drawn farm equipment under the farm mechanisation program to farmers in Gokwe.

The Governor applauded farmers in Gokwe for their contribution to the country’s food security.

A beneficiary of the farm mechanisation program, Mr. Augustine Mukova expressed his gratitude to the government emphasizing that the implements will improve agriculture in the district.



http://www.newsnet.co.zw/index.php?nID=12395

No going back on land issue - Newly resettled farmers

Posted: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:04:56 +0200
Newly resettled farmers in Mvurwi have reiterated that there is no going back on the land issue amid reports that some former white commercial farmers have been visiting their properties claiming an MDC Tsvangirayi victory in the recent harmonized elections.

Newly resettled farmers in Mvurwi have reiterated that there is no going back on the land issue amid reports that some former white commercial farmers have been visiting their properties claiming an MDC Tsvangirayi victory in the recent harmonized elections.

Observers say such reports conform to the contents of a secret document allegedly written by the MDC Tsvangirayi faction detailing how 200 farms will be given to the former white farmers once the faction is in power.

The Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee Chairperson for Mazoe Bernard Nyangoni and other farmers confirmed these reports.

Meanwhile Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena says in Mashonaland West province two MDC vehicles inscribed Mashonaland West have been observed going around farms terrorizing resettled farmers.

He said the occupants of the two vehicles allegedly assaulted resettled farmers at Uhuru, Nakazi and Chigwell farms in Chegutu and Kadoma adding that investigations are still in progress.

The opposition MDC has been on record for condemning the land redistribution exercise saying they will return land to the whites if elected into power.

Observers say such utterances make them conclude that the document tallies with what is on the ground.

The document contains plans which include taking vehicles from doctors, traditional chiefs and repossession of other benefits given by government.



http://www.newsnet.co.zw/index.php?nID=12373

Gvt reallocates A2 farms

Posted: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:56:26 +0200
Government has reallocated at least 50 under-utilised A2 farms to new farmers in Masvingo Province that were repossessed following a concerted land audit aimed at bolstering agricultural production in the province.

Government has reallocated at least 50 under-utilised A2 farms to new farmers in Masvingo Province that were repossessed following a concerted land audit aimed at bolstering agricultural production in the province.

The reallocation of the farms to new beneficiaries is expected to improve agricultural production in Masvingo following investigations by the provincial land audit committee that poor performance in agriculture is also partly due to massive land under utilisation.

Masvingo Provincial Administrator Cde Felix Chikovo said most of the farmers whose A2 farms were repossessed were in the lucrative sugarcane-growing sector in Chiredzi where over 600 new farmers have been allocated land since the commencement of the land reform programme.



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ZBC NEWS, ZIMBABWE) New tillage & combine harvesting rates announced

New tillage & combine harvesting rates announced
Posted: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:04:02 +0200

The government has announced new tillage and combine harvesting rates for the 2008 winter cropping season.

In a statement, the Minister of Agricultural Engineering, Mechanisation and Irrigation, Dr Joseph Made, said these rates pertain to government related institutions such as the District Development Fund and ARDA, that provide agricultural tillage and combine harvesting services subsidised by the government.

The rates differ according to the operation. This year’s boom spraying will cost $891 931 500 per hectare and $892 384 500 per hectare for the dry and wet rate respectively.

The dry rate is when the service provider supplies the machinery only, while the wet rate also includes fuel.

Combine harvesting rates for this season will be $6 243 376 for the dry rate and $6 245 460 for the wet rate.

Other rates include those for disking, land rolling, lime spreading, planting, ploughing, ridging, ripping and vicon spreading.

Dr Made appealed to the private sector companies providing maintenance services to be reasonable in charging for the services provided to farmers.

Labels: JOSEPH MADE, LAND REFORM, MDC, WHITE FARMERS, ZIMABWE

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