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DeVANEY … “It has been frustrating to say, well congratulations you’re vaccinated, nothing changes. It was a hard message to tell people. And so, now to be able to say, yes indeed you’ve been protected and so you don’t have to go through all these other burdensome measures. Those may no longer be required.”
Subabul harvesting hit by COVID
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Non-availability of labour worries farmers
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Non-availability of labour worries farmers
Scores of subabul and eucalyptus farmers are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 impact as the coronavirus-induced lockdown has aggravated the labour shortage in the prime harvesting season of the pulpwood plantation crop.
Many farmers are spending anxious moments worried over the economic fallout of the delay in harvesting their matured subabul and eucalyptus crops owing to the non-availability of labour. There are an estimated 12,000 subabul and eucalyptus farmers in the district.
The pulpwood tree plantations were raised on a little over 1.10 lakh acres in the erstwhile Khammam district.
Zimbabwe has banned maize imports with immediate effect, the country's agricultural marketing authority said on Thursday, citing an expected big harvest of the staple crop this year.