SADC’s plan to send representatives to monitor progress in Zimbabwe’s reform process could meet stern resistance from President Mugabe’s Zanu-PF.
Country’s fragile economic recovery placed at risk by uncertainty surrounding Zanu-PF policies.
Shortages of bread in Zimbabwe are expected to worsen after preparations for the country’s winter wheat crop failed, state media said on Monday. The state-controlled daily Herald said that farmers planted 8 963 hectares of wheat this winter, only 13% of a government target of 70 000 hectares.
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/ 25 January 2008
The realisation of promises by the government of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of a record crop yield during this summer’s farming season will not be met, the country’s agriculture minister admitted on Friday. In October, the government declared that the summer would result in ”the mother of all agricultural seasons”.
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/ 12 October 2007
Zimbabwe’s agricultural production is poised to plummet further amid revelations that the country has secured less than 5% of the agricultural sector’s fuel requirements for the 2007/08 season. In a development likely to hurt the key tobacco sub-sector, only 9-million litres of fuel have been acquired by cash-strapped Harare authorities.
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/ 10 October 2007
Zimbabwe will import 30 000 tonnes of wheat from its neighbours in a bid to ease widespread bread shortages of bread, the agriculture minister has announced, according to the state daily. Agriculture Minister Rugare Gumbo was quoted in the government-mouthpiece Herald newspaper as saying 2 000 tonnes had so far been delivered.