Command Agriculture

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government looks to be lining up opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s uncle Peter to be the fall guy after the Zanu PF leader angrily blasted an unnamed official for allegedly withholding fuel meant for farmers…
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Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube says government’s participation in the special agriculture production programme Command Agriculture will be reduced as initiatives are being put in place to increase private sector…
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Parliament's Finance and Economic Development portfolio committee chairperson David Chapfika has blasted his counterpart, Justice Mayor Wadyajena — who chairs the Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlements committee — arguing he has no…
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Government has deployed soldiers to supervise the harvesting of maize produced under the Command Agriculture programme in a bid to prevent side-marketing of the crop.
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The struggling Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has been directed to supply uninterrupted water to Zanu PF bigwigs and top government officials who are participating in the command winter wheat programme even though some of them…
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The government’s special maize import substitution programme, command agriculture, fell short of its ambitious targets, producing about 30 percent of the country’s maize output in the 2016/17 season, according to official figures.
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Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has fired barbs at government's initiated Command Agriculture programme saying the programme has brewed the ongoing tiff between senior government officials.
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Government is bypassing the State Procurement Board (SPB) in its implementation of the hyped Command Agriculture initiative in violation of the law, which requires that all projects worth US$10 000 or above should go through formal tender…
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By Ben Freeth  Ever since 2001, a year after the brutal invasion of Zimbabwe’s commercial farms began, the country has been dependent on vast volumes of international food aid.  Thanks to the generosity of farmers and tax payers in the…
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