INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Silo Foods increases grain producer price to RTGS$4 000 per tonne

Silo Foods Industries is now buying maize and small grain from farmers at RTGS$4 000 per tonne, representing a 90.47% increase from RTGS$2 100 being offered by its parent Grain Marketing Board (GMB).&...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Silo realises high profits from small grains

THE unbundling of the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) under the Government's public enterprise reform programme is already paying dividend, with Silo Food Industries realising high profits from small grai...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe grain surplus can last 9 months

ZIMBABWE has a surplus of grain that can last for nine months, the Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, Mr Ringson Chitsiko, has said. He was briefing the Parliamen...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

IDC drops Grain Bag

The Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDC) will seek shareholder approval to dispose of its entire equity stake in its subsidiary, Zimbabwe Grain Bag (ZGB).IDC is currently undertaking a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim imports grain despite command agric 'success'

ZIMBABWE is still importing grain despite claims by the government that it had stopped doing so in February last year following a bumper harvest from the command agriculture programme.The government, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2018

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Maize grain supply decreases

Maize supply on the market has decreased due to anticipated poor harvests caused by the low rainfall experienced in the country from the start of the season up to February, the FEWSNET has reported. T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Grain bag shortage hits farmers

The supply of grain bags remains constrained, prompting the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and farmers to import them, putting more pressure on the supply of foreign currency.Zimbabwe is currently facing...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

500 000 tonnes maize in grain reserves

THE Government has said the nation should not panic over the erratic rains this cropping season because in the event of farmers failing to harvest, the country has enough grain reserves. The country h...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 January 2018

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Zim grain reserves adequate despite dryness

Zimbabwe (GMAZ) said on Jan. 23 that despite the recent dry spell its members have sufficient grain reserves to take the country through the next farming season, according to Newsday Zimbabwe."Even wh...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim exceeds grain target by 700 000t

Zimbabwe has in excess of 700 000 tonnes in grain and Government has put in measures that will ensure that no one will starve before the next harvest, Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Mna...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 October 2017

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Grain reserves hit one million tonnes

Government has directed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to immediately activate satellite collection points to mop up the remaining grain as the Strategic Grain Reserve has hit a million tonnes.GMB ha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 September 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe to remain net grain importer

INTERNATIONAL research firm, BMI, has suggested that Zimbabwe will remain a net maize importer in the long term, despite a bumper harvest during the exceptional 2016/17 agricultural season.The countr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 August 2017

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Zim farmers deliver grain to GMB

Over 1 000 tonnes of maize from the 2016/17 agricultural season had been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by April this year, the state's grain procurer said.Speaking at the maize value c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2017

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

AMA seeks $55 million to buy grain

THE Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has issued $55 million bills to raise money to fund the purchase of about 250,000 metric tonnes of grain from the 2013/14 season.The authority was establishe...

By Oliver Kazunga | Published: 02 July 2014

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Small grains output to increase

PRODUCTION of small grains is expected to double this year as most dry regions received adequate rains despite some areas being affected by floods, an expert has said.Small Grains and Cereal Producers...

By New Ziana | Published: 17 March 2014

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Zim Grain Bag's 49% stake still on sale

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is still hunting for an investor to take over its 49 percent shareholding in Bulawayo based manufacturing firm, Zimbabwe Grain Bag (ZGB).The company was ...

By New Ziana | Published: 04 November 2013

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt to regulate grain, oil seed industry

Government has put in place a Statutory Instrument (SI) to shore up the Agricultural Marketing Authority Act in a bid to promote marketing and fair trade practices in the grain and oil seeds industry....

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 October 2013

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe's grain reserve running dangerously low

Zimbabwe's grain reserves are running dangerously low ahead of new but poor harvests caused by erratic rain, an independent continent-wide development bank said Wednesday.The African Development Bank...

By AP | Published: 05 June 2013
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