Word from the Market With AMA The success of any industry starts with formalised structures. Registration is an important component of formalisation and order. Registration ensures that data is captured and processed into information that is useful for decision-making and policy formulation. In Zimbabwe, is the mandate of the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) to register…
Word from the Market With AMA Graeme Murdoch The Zimbabwe agricultural sector has been on a growth trajectory buoyed by an increase in output in traditional crops such as tobacco, maize, soya and wheat. Last season’s success has resulted in the agricultural sector posting an overall growth of 36.2 percent. Whilst the government remains the…
Major cooking oil and margarine maker Pure Oil Industries has contracted 5 000 smallholder farmers in four provinces to produce sunflower during the present summer cropping season to assure itself of local supplies of a critical raw material and replace imports. The move is also expected to create employment, empower smallholder farmers and enable them…
Word from the Market The soil has a bank of weed seeds and the rains received during the past weeks have led to their germination. The frequency of the rains has made it difficult for farmers to come in with daily operations such as weeding and sometimes spraying of herbicides will be difficult, hence has…
The Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) wishes to advise all stakeholders that further to the announced pre-planting producer prices for the 2021-22 agricultural cotton season, the Government has approved a dual payment system whereby USD30 shall be paid in foreign currency per 250kg bale delivered and the remainder in ZWL.
