ZIMBABWE - Zimbabwe has in excess of 700,000 tonnes in grain and Government has put in measures that will ensure that no one will starve before the next harvest, Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Acting President Mnangagwa said this in the National Assembly yesterday while responding to a question by MDC-T Bulawayo Representative Dr…
ZIMBABWE - At least one million food-insecure households in Zimbabwe are at high risk of exhausting their food stocks between January and March next year despite the bumper maize harvest recorded this year, a United Nations agency has warned. Unicef in its end of September 2017 situational report highlights that there would be food insecurity,…
TANZANIA - A new cereals and other produce regulatory authority that will set cap prices for various crops is expected to come into being before the end of the year. This was said by the Cereals and Other Produce Board of Tanzania (CPB), Acting Director General, Mr John Maige in an interview with the TBC…
ZIMBABWE - Government has so far paid close to $400 million to farmers after they delivered 1,1 million tonnes of maize to the Grain Marketing Board. This comes after Treasury upped weekly disbursements to GMB to about $40 million to farmers every week to boost farmers' preparations for the 2017 /2018 summer cropping season. Agriculture,…
GHANA - Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has held a stakeholder’s workshop to showcase and assess the socio-economic impact of their Local Raw Material (LRM) sourcing on the Ghanaian economy. A statement issued in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the workshop was held bi-annually to review the impact of the company’s…
KENYA - Kenya faces maize imports from April next year to cover for a shortfall of about five million bags from the long rains season, a new study by Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute showed, pointing to potential steep climbs in consumer prices of the commodity. The institute said a projected harvest of 32 million bags…
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa boosted its final estimate for this year’s record crop as the pace of deliveries continues to point to a bumper harvest. Growers will probably reap 16.74 million metric tons of corn in the 2016 to 2017 season, Lusani Ndou, a senior statistician at the Pretoria-based Crop Estimates Committee, said by…
CHINA - China, which last year held more than one half of world corn stocks, could soon "find itself tight" in supplies of the grain, thanks to reforms such as a farm subsidy shake-up, and moves to boost domestic consumption. The US Department of Agriculture's Beijing bureau, cut to a five-year low of 79.2m tonnes…
WORLD - The International Grains Council lifted its estimate for the world grains harvest to the second largest on record, citing improved ideas on wheat and, especially, corn production. The intergovernmental group raised by 20m tonnes to 2.069bn tonnes its estimate for world production of wheat and coarse grains, such as barley, corn and sorghum,…
MALAWI - Malawi Government ban on maize export is not working to it expectation following revelations that between June and July a total of 3,519 metric tonnes of maize illegally crossed the borders into Tanzania and Mozambique a development that is feared to result into severe shortage of the staple in the coming months. In…
