Feb 28 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe plans to import 1.1 million metric tons of maize over the next year, state media reported on Wednesday, as the country seeks to limit the impact of an El Nino-induced ...

JAMBEZI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For more than 20 years, Dalarex Ncube grew maize in arid Jambezi District, one of Zimbabwe's driest regions, and his family ate maize porridge, the ...

This year, Zimbabwe’s maize harvests, which are frequently affected by drought due to climate change, are facing the additional challenges of the El Nino weather phenomenon, and the high costs of ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a brief report last week that: “Zimbabwe’s corn (maize) crop for the 2021/22 marketing year (MY) is estimated at 2.7 million tons, an increase of almost ...

HARARE, April 20 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe expects to harvest 2.3 million tonnes of the staple maize grain this year, a 58% jump from the previous season driven by favourable rains, according to a cabinet ...

Harare — Maize meal remains in short supply because the Grain Marketing Board is not selling millers enough grain. Most shops in Harare have gone for several weeks without receiving any maize meal ...

EZIMNYAMA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Zimbabwe’s farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not ...

The United Nations World Food Programme said some 14 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought that has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern. The Southern African ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government is holding 321,000 tonnes of maize in strategic reserves, just over half of its optimal requirements and enough to last three months, the agriculture minister ...

Zimbabwe has released its final crop assessment report showing that the country has a grain deficit and needs to import 700,000 tonnes of maize to avert food shortages. The country requires about 1, 4 ...

Harare — GOVERNMENT will soon ensure seed maize producers are paid double what the commercial maize crop fetches to ensure adequate supplies next season. The Minister of Agriculture, Cde Rugare Gumbo, ...