Category: Fruit and Vegetables
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Damofalls Market: A Clean and Convenient Alternative to Mbare Musika?
Read More: Damofalls Market: A Clean and Convenient Alternative to Mbare Musika?For residents of Ruwa, Mabvuku, Damafalls, and surrounding areas, the dreaded trip to Mbare Musika for fresh produce may no longer be a necessity. While Mbare Musika undeniably holds a central position in Harare’s fresh produce ecosystem, recent heavy rains have highlighted its well-documented shortcomings – flooding, mud, and sanitation concerns. The ongoing construction of…
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Madora completely dissappears from Mbare Musika
Read More: Madora completely dissappears from Mbare MusikaDuring our second Mbare Musika surveys for this week we noticed that Madora/Amacibi have completely disappeared from Mbare Musika. At Zimpricecheck we conduct two surveys of Mbare Musika Prices and publish the results on our Mbare Musika page.. Madora is one of the close to 70 products we look at but today we struggled to…
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Mbare Musika Retailers to be moved to new temporary market
Read More: Mbare Musika Retailers to be moved to new temporary marketA lot of us were sceptical when the announcement was made, but it seems the long-awaited reconstruction of Mbare Musika Retail Market which was gutted by fire back in October, is finally set to begin. When we visited Mbare today we noticed that technically, work on the upgraded market has already started. The government, in…
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Mopane Worm Shortage: Why This Zimbabwean Delicacy Now Costs More Than Chicken
Read More: Mopane Worm Shortage: Why This Zimbabwean Delicacy Now Costs More Than ChickenMopane worms, also known as madora, have long been a reliable and affordable source of protein in Zimbabwe’s rural Matabeleland region. However, recent times have seen a dramatic shift. Once plentiful, these crunchy caterpillars are now a luxury enjoyed primarily by the wealthy. The change has been swift. Just last year, a cup of madora…
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A massive shortage of peanuts at Mbare Musika
Read More: A massive shortage of peanuts at Mbare MusikaRecently we were engaged by several interested buyers who wanted deliveries that included a couple of buckets of peeled and unpeeled peanuts. What were supposed to be routine orders quickly turned into complications as we could not find enough peanuts to fulfil the orders at the usual price. Generally, you can expect to spend about…
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ZERA is hosting a solar water heater course in Masvingo next month
Read More: ZERA is hosting a solar water heater course in Masvingo next monthA couple of years ago the government of Zimbabwe passed a law that makes it illegal to install electric geysers in homes. This means that if your house did not have an electric geyser before this law was passed you are no longer allowed to install one. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) instead encourages…
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Government punishes ZSE speculators with 40% tax
Read More: Government punishes ZSE speculators with 40% taxA couple of weeks ago the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange published a document detailing a new circuit measure meant to bring sanity to the market and curb speculation which has become rife. Among other things, traders on the Zimbabwe stock exchange will now pay a steep capital gains tax of 40% instead of the usual 20%…
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Tomato and potato supply improve at Mbare Musika
Read More: Tomato and potato supply improve at Mbare MusikaThe lorries are back! We noticed an increase amount potato lorries that throng Mbare Musika after a few weeks in which there were missing in action. Just after Christmas, we noticed a sharp decline in potato and tomato supplies at the vegetable market. The decline in supply resulted in a sharp increase in the prices…
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Tomato and Potato shortage hits Mbare Musika
Read More: Tomato and Potato shortage hits Mbare MusikaThe only two things potatoes and tomatoes have in common is that they both have controversial pronunciation schemes that everyone cannot seem to agree on. That and the fact that they are in short supply at Zimbabwe’s leading vegetable market at Mbare Musika. There has been a slump in the supply both of potatoes and…