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Brighton Goko STAFF WRITER gokob@dailynews.co.zw      THE China and Zimbabwe Agricultural Company has started an ambitious US$2,5 million seed breeding project in Mazowe, Mashonaland Central, to help the government to revamp the agricultural sector. The investment was made through the China Industrial International Group, the parent company of the China and Zimbabwe Agricultural Company….

THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has increased water allocation for electricity generation at Kariba power station to 30 billion cubic meters, following a favourable outlook for the 2020/21 rain season. The allocation, which was increased from 27 billion cubic meters, will be shared equally between Zambia’s ZESCO Limited and the Zimbabwe Power Company for their…

AT LEAST 13 000 hectares of land has been put under irrigated tobacco ahead of the 2020/21 summer cropping season, the industry regulator has said. Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board chief executive officer Andrew Matibiri said at the weekend the irrigated tobacco hectarage planted so far was almost the same as last year. “Planting of…

DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has hailed the participation of Zimbabwean women in  peacekeeping missions and pledged to continue supporting their involvement in security and conflict management. Muchinguri-Kashiri was speaking during a high-level virtual session commemorating the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325) by African Women Leaders Network (Awln)…

IN agonising labour pain and turned away from a Harare health centre, Aurage Katume feared that, like many other Zimbabwean women, she could lose her unborn baby. She struggled to another clinic in the country’s capital. The midwives there were not ready to help her either. “What did you bring us?” one of them said,…

THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has allocated 30 billion cubic metres of water for power generation at Kariba Dam to be shared equally by the Zimbabwe-based 1 050MW Kariba South power station and Zambia-based 1 08GW Kariba North hydroelectric power station. This comes after the 24th Annual Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook Forum indicated that…

Tarisai Machakaire JAILED businessman Munyaradzi Kereke has sued the government after it gazetted a farm that he recently bought for his family while in prison. Kereke is serving a 10-year jail term at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after being convicted of raping his wife’s 11-year-old niece at gunpoint. In the application filed at the High…

Godknows Matarutse STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw BRAVURA Holdings, an international mining company 70 kilometres south-west of Harare, says it will sink US$1 billion in their ambitious platinum project in the country, the Daily News report. The mining venture, located in the Selous area on the Great Dyke in Mashonaland West, is one of the key projects…

IRVINE’S Zimbabwe recently handed over a chicken house that the country’s leading poultry producer built at Ntabeni Primary School as part of its partnership with government’s Command Livestock Agricultural Programme. The chicken house was handed to the school by Irvine’s Broiler Executive, Martin Ndengu who emphasised the poultry producer’s commitment to the Command Livestock Agricultural…