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Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter HYGRO Chickens, a chicken breeding company in Bulawayo, has introduced an innovative, convenient and economic way of running a poultry business for rural farmers to increase…
Genetically Modified Foods and Africa’s agricultural-economic landscape: Part 2
Tapuwa Mashangwa TATENDWA Mudzimi (fictitious name), a farmer in the outskirts of Bulawayo has just spent months rearing chickens and vegetables and is finally taking them to some supermarkets for…
Bakeries concerned over late yeast deliveries
Tinashe Makichi Harare Bureau The bakery industry has expressed concern over delays in the supply of yeast in recent weeks saying this will likely cause bread shortages in the country…
Unifreight prunes loss making units
Harare Bureau UNIFREIGHT Limited, which completed acquisition of Pioneer Corporation Africa last year, has pruned perennial loss making units in a restructuring exercise that will see it exiting public passenger…
Rand firmer ahead of US GDP figures
Johannesburg — The rand was steady at firmer levels yesterday morning as traders awaited the release of US gross domestic product (GDP) figures — due later in the afternoon. The…
Banks, financiers in $5 billion arrears
Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter Banks and financial institutions are failing to access international lines of credit because they owe external creditors an excess of $5, 5 billion, Bankers Association of…
Cheap imports affect capacity utilisation
Chronicle Reporter Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector has been hard hit by an influx of cheap imports and is now operating at an average of 36 percent capacity utilisation, the deputy minister…
Nigerian army at odds over identity of freed hostages
Abuja — Nigeria’s top brass warned yesterday against premature declarations on 200 girls rescued from Boko Haram after the army said they were not the same girls kidnapped by the…