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Zimbabwe\'s Sugar Production Falls Due to Chisumbanje Fuel Plant
2013-05-09 09:03:50| Sugar Industry News
Zimbabwe has encountered a massive drop in sugar production following the Chisumbanje ethanol plant which in recent years resulted in thousands of hactres being haphazardly converted into plantations for the purposes of fuel production.
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Zimbabwe's farmers dig in to capture the deluge
2013-03-04 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: For the smallholder farmers in arid Esigodini, just south of Bulawayo, the heavy downpours that have hit the area in recent months have been a godsend. "We have not seen this much rain in years," said farmer Brenda Zulu. The rains first came in January, destroying homes and claiming lives as people were caught unawares. But farmers struggling to grow crops and raise livestock in the traditionally low-rainfall area surrounding Zimbabwe's second-largest city realised that if they could find a...
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Rescuing Zimbabwe's livestock industry
2013-01-25 09:52:20| Livestock - Topix.net
Among the many sectors of Zimbabwe's economy that have declined progressively over the years is agriculture which, until the millennium 12 years ago, was thriving and was the key foundation of the economy.
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