The Women’s Farming Syndicate (WFS), founded in 2011, is an agribusiness community with a diverse membership from professionals to grass roots; a business constituency that has grown to over 5,000 women entrepreneurs across the country with key projects and programmes that include the Annual Women’s Showcase Market, the Weekly SMEs Market, and an eCommerce platform.
Farmers in Chiredzi district did not grow sesame under Sidella Trading contract in 2016/17 season; they only grew it in 2014/15. Some of the farmers stopped producing sesame because they failed to secure a market since Sidella Trading did not come back after maturity of the facility
Cabanga Academy is a consulting academy that teaches Digital the African Way, in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia, run by Kufunga Cabanga Group and its partners. Through its partners such as Step By Step Consulting Group SA, OpenKasi Foundation, BM School (Zambia, Zimbabwe), the courses on offer include Digital Marketing, Digital Journalism, Digital Design, and Digital Brand Diplomacy.
Ariston business interests span a variety of crops including tea, macadamia, banana, apples, peaches, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, maize, soya beans and it has poultry and beef cattle. The operations of the tea growing units are fully integrated with the Blended Tea Factory (BTF) for value addition for tea.
As Zimbabwe and China trade surpassed the USD One Billion mark in September 2016, making the two countries important trade partners, there is need for the Zimbabwean entrepreneur and executive to understand basic business etiquette with the Chinese.