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Lumpy skin disease outbreak in Mutoko

BOVINE skin diseases such as lumpy skin disease can greatly affect cattle as well as cattle ranches’ income and national economies through reduced production and performance. They also cause irreparable damage to the hide. The hide of a cattle (dehwe), forms the important outer covering surface...

Whitsun Foundation efforts

During 1975-1978, three major Rhodesian corporations of the time, namely the Shell Company, Delta Breweries; and TA Holdings contributed to establishment of the Whitsun Foundation; a small highly focused outfit, whose aim was to prepare plans and projects, which included a land reform concept,...

Soil maintenance for successful agriculture

By Dr Tony Monda AGRICULTURE in Zimbabwe is the backbone and fulcrum of the economy.   It is the trigger for sustainable national development and the potential store of our sustenance.   Given the negative impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on all sectors of the collective...

CITES restrictions…why has SADC done nothing?

By Emmanuel Koro in Johannesburg, SA IN November 2019, seven SADC countries protested anti-wild trade decisions taken by CITES, a UN agency.  The seven took the unprecedented step of declaring their right to ignore CITES resolutions that restrict international trade in wild products.  The diplomatic term for...

Eastern highlands: The home of tea

NESTLED at the foot of the country’s highest mountain range, at Nyanga, in the Eastern Highlands, is the setting for the Mtarazi Falls; the second-highest fall in the world, which tumble down 500 metres to the valley floor.   The Falls plummet over the edge...

Cattle ranching in the early years: Part Four

WHITES owned an estimated 371 000 herd of cattle by 1911.  How much of it was seized and plundered during and after the 1893-1894 uprising, has not yet been fully ascertained.   What is certain is, a ‘Loot Committee’ was setup by the BSAC arguing: “Settlers...

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