Foreign airlines commend Victoria Falls Airport rehab

DELEGATES who attended the Routes Africa strategy summit held in Victoria Falls last week commended the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe on the Victoria Falls airport expansion project saying it…

The horror of our perfectly fine mess

It was written in Coptic, we are told, and the good folk at the National Geographic Society had the good sense of putting it into a more understandable language so…

Tourism sector introduces new models to boost domestic tourism

THE tourism industry has intensified efforts to grow domestic tourism in the country by introducing new models that will see domestic tourists’ figures rising significantly, a cabinet Minister said. Tourism…

Edible insects series 6

King crickets (common English), Henicus species, Majenya (Shona) Introduction THANK you all for the responses on the last article on Jewel beetles, these are still a delicacy in Mashonaland East,…

Joshua Nkomo Airport targeting low cost airlines

THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has made a decision to focus on targeting low-cost airlines for the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport in Bulawayo in a bid to develop…

Milk production set to increase

GOVERNMENT is working on various initiatives to improve the country’s milk production which has been on a free-fall for over a decade, a senior Government official has said. Agriculture, Mechanisation…

Farmers fail to meet winter wheat hectarage

WINTER wheat farmers in Matabeleland North are likely to miss the targeted 400 hectares this year due to a plethora of challenges, chief among them capital constraints and uncompetitive prices…

Direct lending to smallholder livestock farmers, a possibility

THIS week I thought I should walk the jungle and tackle a subject which I totally have no clue about, finance. I have a nearly non-existent background in finance and…

Farmers lose revenue due to frost attack

COMMERCIAL farmers in Umguza and Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland North province have lost thousands of dollars in potential revenue after frost damaged their crops this month. According to a report from…

Understanding types of Fish Farming

Extensive aquaculture Limiting for growth here is the available food supply by natural sources, commonly zooplankton feeding on pelagic algae or benthic animals, such as crustaceans and molluscs.

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