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Farming

The Women’s Farming Syndicate

The Women’s Farming Syndicate (WFS), founded in 2011, is an agribusiness community with a diverse membership from professionals to grass roots; a business constituency that has grown to over 5,000 women entrepreneurs across the country with key projects and programmes...

Sidella Trading and the Sesame Value Chain in Zimbabwe

Farmers in Chiredzi district did not grow sesame under Sidella Trading contract in 2016/17 season; they only grew it in 2014/15. Some of the farmers stopped producing sesame because they failed to secure a market since Sidella Trading did not come back after maturity...

Ariston Holdings: The Farming Kingdom

Ariston business interests span a variety of crops including tea, macadamia, banana, apples, peaches, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, maize, soya beans and it has poultry and beef cattle. The operations of the tea growing units are fully integrated with the Blended Tea...

The Agriconomy of South Africa

South Africa is a diverse agricultural economy made up of 40,000 commercial farms according to the recently published Census of Commercial Agriculture (CoCA) of 2017 Report. An agricultural powerhouse that feeds Africa, its economic health affects many other countries...

Milborrow: Growing Zimbabwe’s Livestock Industry Using IP

Milborrow: Growing Zimbabwe’s Livestock Industry Using IP

(Zimbabwe) - In 2013, Zimbabwe's cattle herd was 5 million herd of cattle (FAOstat.org), and a bulk of these have been vaccinated by Milborrow products, HITET being lead. HITET, the tried and tested animal vaccine brand that has kept the Zimbabwean herd for over a...

Funding Farmer Stella: The Complexity of Agri-Financing in Zimbabwe

Funding Farmer Stella: The Complexity of Agri-Financing in Zimbabwe

(Zimbabwe) - Meet Stella Masukume, in the middle of her field of cabbages almost ready for the market. She is a farmer in Nyabira, a farming community just outside Harare on your way to Chinhoyi. She grows vegetables, maize, beans, tobacco and chickens, with ability...

Funding Farmer Stella: The Complexity of Agri-Financing in Zimbabwe

(Zimbabwe) - Meet Stella Masukume, in the middle of her field of cabbages almost ready for the market. She is a farmer in Nyabira, a farming community just outside Harare on your way to Chinhoyi. She grows vegetables, maize, beans, tobacco and chickens, with ability...