BY CORPCORD INVESTMENTS Continuous technological innovations have paved the way for advances in agri-processing equipment, allowing farmers a wider variety of options when choosing grain drying equipment. The improved technology available today places farmers firmly in control of their drying costs and quality control. The affordability of the equipment as well as the cost-saving parameter […]
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Zimbabwe Ladies Team Shines Article By: Judith Kajuma The Zimbabwe Ladies Polocrosse team recently won all the T-series played against the visiting Barbarians Ladies Polocrosse Team (made up of players from New Zealand and South Africa), at Borrowdale Country Club. Friends and family came to watch and support the games which were mainly sponsored by
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Article by: Julie Havercroft Zimbabwe’s only crop spraying service, Agricair, has soared through African skies for over fifty years. The company, at its peak, was the second largest crop spraying service in the world, and flew into neighbouring African countries and even as far afield as Sudan for work. It had bases countrywide, with aeroplanes
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Article by: Julie Havercroft With the recent revival of the Zimbabwean agricultural industry, foreign companies and their local business partners are jostling for market space in response to growing demand for their various products. Farmers, in turn, are looking for ways to increase margins and streamline their operations. Within the manufacturing sector that supplies specialised
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Locally Made Grain Dryer Local engineering firm Corpcord, who design and manufacture a multitude of process control and machinery, were approached late last year with an interesting proposal: to build a large grain dryer. This was only the third time they had been given an agricultural sector project. The client’s specifications were mainly concerned with
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A recent field day in Lion’s Den co-hosted by Brink Bosman, Blue Sky Farming, and Agricon Equipment, brought farmers from countrywide to see for themselves, some of the very latest farming technology in action. Bosman gave working demonstrations of the tractors, combine harvesters, seed planters, harrows, rippers and sprayers and other equipment that he uses
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Deep in the heart of farming land near Chinhoyi, in a place colloquially known as Poverty Valley, Wayne “Scrappy” Rouse, is productively harnessing the sun’s energy and is using it to power his irrigation. Three years ago, he was fed up with repeated and drawn out power cuts (one lasting for three months). Power grid
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