Archive for December 2025
Kutsaga Innovation Challenge 2025
Celebrating youth-led agripreneurship solutions for a sustainable and resilient future By KF Chitambira; TP Munhenga; O Mudadisi; KZN Chiwanga; G Zvobgo; K Mateva; S Dimbi Figure 1: Kutsaga management, the Innovation Challenge organising committee, and the top three winners of the Kutsaga Innovation Challenge 2025 The 2025 Kutsaga Innovation Challenge marked a defining moment in Zimbabwe’s agricultural innovation…
Read MoreData-driven cattle breeding: Transforming century-old operations through systematic measurement
Based on a presentation by Sonja Schneider at the 2025 Zimbabwe Herd Book Beef School About Okamutombe Farm Operating in Namibia’s challenging 410mm median rainfall environment, the Schneider family has maintained successful cattle farming at Okamutombe Farm since 1912. Today, they run one of Africa’s largest Brahman studs alongside a substantial commercial herd producing oxen and…
Read MoreAfrica’s largest tobacco processing facility opens
His Excellency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially opened the Cut Rag Processors (CRP) tobacco manufacturing plant in Aspindale, Harare. The facility, which represents an investment of between USD 100-120 million, is now the largest tobacco processing plant on the African continent. The new facility is equipped with advanced German and Italian technology and has the capacity…
Read MoreBasics of veld management: A practical guide for cattle farmers
By Dr D.M. “Mick” Gammon The cattle farmer has been blessed with the most wonderful crop: grass. It requires no cultivation, no planting, no fertilisation, and no weeding or disease control. It is reaped by unpaid harvesters that process it into a high-quality product and in their spare time they see to fertilisation and soil…
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