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The Sadomba cattle project is an agricultural initiative created by the women of the village of Sadomba in Nyanga District, Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe, with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development and the United Nations' Women empowerment and Community Development Programmes. [1]
The area has vast grazing lands there and people in Tsholotsho usually take their cattle for fattening in some of the popular grazing lands and they call it ukulagisa. The district centre of Tsholotsho is situated about 65 kilometres west of Nyamandlovu in the former Gwayi Tribal Trust land.
Both of them are known to be less affected by climate change than cattle, [3]: 747 with goats in particular considered one the most climate-resilient domestic animals, being second only to camels. [76] In Southeastern Ethiopia, some of the cattle pastoralists are already switching to goats and camels. [49]
Feeder cattle futures contracts, traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), can be used to hedge and to speculate on the price of feeder cattle. Cattle producers can hedge future buying and selling prices for feeder cattle through trading feeder cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's risk management program. [11]
Zimbabwe's tobacco sector is the largest grower of tobacco in Africa, and the 6th largest in the world. Tobacco is Zimbabwe's leading agricultural export and one of its main sources of foreign exchange. Tobacco farming accounted for 11% of Zimbabwe's GDP in 2017, and 3 million of its 16 million people relied on tobacco for their livelihood. [6]
Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.
This, in turn he argued as the main influence in the formation of the Zimbabwe Pattern at Great Zimbabwe. [3] Arguably his seminal contribution to the field was A Handbook to the Iron Age : The Archaeology of Pre-Colonial Farming Societies in Southern Africa (2007), which has contributed to the understanding of ceramic style analysis and ...
Mberengwa Rural District Council is the sole local government organ in Mberengwa District unlike Vungu Rural District Council, Zibagwe Rural District Council, Tongogara Rural District Council, Runde Rural District Council and Gokwe South Rural District Council that work together with urban councils in their respective district.