Posted on 08 January 2012.
The government has announced its intention to raise $100 million through the issue of Agro Bills for the financing of agricultural production in this upcoming season. The Government of Zimbabwe is the guarantor of the bills to be issued by the Agricultural Marketing Authority and “applications must be for a minimum of $10 000, and [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Industry
Posted on 19 November 2011.
AICO is an agricultural and food processing group whose business units include Cottco, Seedco, Olivine Industries and Scottco and in the last few days it has made its financial results public. The results cover a period from 1 April to 30 September 2011 and are quite consistent with the rate of the whole economy. During [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Profiles
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Tongaat Hulett Hippo Valley Estates which is one of Zimbabwe’s prime sugar producers based in the lowveld south east of Zimbabwe announced its financial results for the period ending 30 September 2011. The results show a staggering performance and really show that for some companies the economy has recovered totally. Revenues surged to $70 million [...]
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Posted in Agriculture
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Seedco is a Zimbabwe incorporated company with operations in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia whose principal activities are the processing of agricultural seed on a commercial basis. Seedco recently released its interim results for the period ending 30 September 2011 and the highlights include a turnover which surged 49% to $30 million. The performance [...]
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Posted in Agriculture
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Producer prices Commodity GMB Kurima gold Staywell Croplink ProGroup White maize 275 – AB 240 C [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, The Biz
Posted on 27 September 2011.
Agriculture production in the country suffered a massive decline after the so called land reform as the new farming community lacked the know-how, the knowledge and the capital to maintain the level of production of the former farmers. In any case the reforms were carried out in one of the most frenzied fashion while the [...]
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Posted in Agriculture
Posted on 18 September 2011.
ZIMBABWE AGRICULTURE MARKET COMMODITY PRICES COMMERCIAL FARMERS’ UNION Telephone 263-4- 309849 Fax 263 4 309 849 www.cfuzim.org BEEF OPEN MARKET PRICES VENUE Mount 29/08/11 Hampden Bulawayo 09/09/11 Ave Price Average AVE PRICE AVERAGE GRADE NO.OF CATTLE PER KG LV WT NO.OF CATTLE PER KG LV WT Super N/a N/a [...]
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Posted in Agriculture