adminBoka targets contract farming
Business Reporter
BOKA Tobacco Floors, the country’s largest auction floor, has set sights on contract farming, targeting three million kilogrammes during the next planting season.
“It is a phased programme that we are starting and we will improve as we go,” BTF operations director Mr Moses Bias said in Harare last week.
Zera eyes more power supplies
Blessing Bonga and Kudakwashe PembereZimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has said the country is set to be self-sufficient in terms of its electricity requirements by 2017 when refurbishments at Kariba Power Station and other developments are expected to be completed.
Quarterly reviews vital
Nyaradzo Mavindidze
The secret to staying on top of your personal and professional life is to schedule regular times for review and reflection. You need to assess where you have come from and where you are going.RBZ invites tenders for Tuli
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is inviting tenders from experts to evaluate Tuli Coal Mine near Beitbridge for purposes of disposing shares as it moves to disengage from non- core business.
Bulawayo man scoops Telecel top prize
Business Reporter
Mr Brian CHADA (41) of Bulawayo is the winner of the top prize of a brand new VW Amarok double cab truck in the Telecel Win Big Promotion grand draw held in Harare last week.
Speaking after the handover ceremony, Mr Chada said: “When the people from Telecel called me they just told me l had won but they did not tell me what l had won so this is a
New PowerTel billing system by July
Business ReporterINTERNET provider PowerTel says it will start billing customers for the actual data accessed in July when the new billing system that was acquired last month has undergone the necessary tests to make sure it is working properly.
Boost for local car market
Business ReporterSINGAPOREAN automobile giant Kheng Keng Auto’s executives visited Zimbabwe last week to assess the used vehicles car market before the firm begins vehicle and spare parts exports to the country in what is expected to reduce the cost of used cars.
Cyprus pleads to EU, bailout deal approved
NICOSIA. — Cyprus appealed to the EU on Friday for help in weathering a devastating economic crisis, as eurozone ministers approved a 23-billion-euro rescue plan for the nearly bankrupt island.End of the road for DW
Martin Kadzere Senior Business ReporterDAVID Whitehead has virtually collapsed and provisional judicial manager Mr Winseley Militala has recommended the company be liquidated.
David Whitehead was for the second time placed under judicial management in December 2010, having gone through the same reconstruction between 2005 and 2008 under
Weather information is power
Jeffrey Gogo
RISING climate risks mean that weather and climate information should now be packaged differently, timely and with greater relevance to specific areas, to help small-scale farmers plan better.