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Original Post Date: 2002-08-08 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/8/2002 2:52:13 PM
Zim: Resettled "farmers" face hunger
Resettled farmers in Chief Chivero’s area in Mhondoro have lambasted the government for not fulfiling its promises to assist them to get started. The farmers, interviewed at the weekend, said they had fallen on hard times. Lydia Muzenda, 62, of Muzindaweshumba resettlement scheme, said they were near starvation. “We have nothing to eat,” she said. “We are buying a bucket of maize at an unaffordable price of $1 000 or more.” Muzenda said she feared the worst if they failed to secure draught power to till their newly-acquired land. The settlers said they had made several vain attempts to secure maize grain at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), as the government had promised to help them with food relief until the next harvest. Joseph Made, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, has repeatedly assured the settlers that the government would support them with farming inputs, including seed and fertiliser.
Muzenda said when she moved to Mhondoro from her original home in Gokwe, she sold five of her cattle to raise money to transport her property. “Most of us on this scheme don’t have cattle to till the land,” she said. “We have waited, in vain, for a long time to get the District Development Fund tillage tractors.” Muzenda said they held monthly meetings to discuss their problems and possible solutions, but there was still no positive response from the government. She said the settlers had spent a lot of money travelling to the Chegutu GMB depot to get maize grain without success. Nelson Takawira, 42, of Stokesay resettlement area, said: “The rainy season is only a few months away but we are still to prepare our fields for planting.” “We haven’t received the promised maize seed from government,” he said. Another settler at Zimbo, who refused to be identified, said non-governmental organisations involved in the food aid programmes should help them to avert starvation which he said was now very imminent in the area. The government has discouraged the NGOs from distributing food unless this is done through the government or Zanu PF channels.
Source:Daily News (Zimb)
Published:Wed 7-Aug-2002
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>