For many years, Silibaziso Handa has grown cotton on her five hectares of land in Mavhulele village in Zimbabwe’s Gokwe South District. But even at the age of 63, she is still growing the cash crop ...

After building her home in Zimbabwe, sending her children to school, and becoming the breadwinner after her husband fell ill, all from the money she earned from cotton, now Loice Dzivakwi has fallen ...

In Zimbabwe, rural areas have long shown strong support for the Zimbabwe African Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF). Ahead of the 23 August presidential elections, it has been no different: President ...

Government has embarked on new initiatives to revive the cotton sector, with two interspecific hybrid varieties undergoing ...

THE Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) is making available $5 billion under its input credit scheme for the 2002/2003 farming season. Making the announcement at the National Cotton Grower of the Year ...

The cotton industry in Zimbabwe has experienced 96% production level decline in the past 13 years according to recent data from the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), a situation that has ...

Zimbabweans work at the new joint venture Sino Zimbabwe Cotton's spinning and ginnery mill at the industrial zone of Harare, Zimbabwe, Dec. 12, 2013. The mill, with an investment of 17 million U.S.

Zimbabwe's largest cotton producing company, Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco), has lost 1.2-million kilograms of cotton lint worth an estimated US$2.5m (about R37.5m) in a fire at a ginning site in ...

Communal farmers here are pinning hopes on cotton this farming season after erratic rains affected their plans. Chiredzi and other southern parts of Masvingo only received meaningful rains during the ...

GOKWE — After building her home in Zimbabwe, sending her children to school, and becoming the breadwinner after her husband fell ill, all from the money she earned from cotton, now Loice Dzivakwi has ...