Categories

Zim: New farmers fail to take up land

WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.

Original Post Date: 2002-11-25  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/25/2002 4:33:14 PM
Zim: New farmers fail to take up land

Harare – Only half the black farmers allocated land in one of Zimbabwe’s richest provinces under the government’s controversial land programme have taken up their plots, a state-run newspaper said on Sunday. So far only 7 000 out of 14 000 farmers allocated formerly white-owned land in Mashonaland West province have moved onto the farms and are currently preparing the land for crops, according to the Sunday Mail. Provincial governor Peter Chanetsa was “concerned” by the low uptake of land under a resettlement programme meant for would-be commercial farmers, the paper said. More than two years ago, President Robert Mugabe’s government began to take white-owned farms for distribution to new black farmers. Only around 600 white farmers are still on their farms, down from 4 500 at the start of the programme. Critics say the new farmers lack the financial backing and infrastructure needed to restore Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector and grow food for the country, which is facing severe food shortages. Last month, the governor of another fertile province, Mashonaland East, said half the people offered land there had not taken up their plots.

[Note: I have said from the beginning that blacks in Zimbabwe are NOT the keen farmers Mugabe portrayed them as. Now you can see how it is panning out. Whites were successful at doing something black peasants were not good at and also had little interest in. Viva Commercial Farming in Africa!! Whites were successful where indigenous people were not. But who, these days, gives white people credit for doing anything positive? Jan]

Source: News24 (SA)
Published:Sun 24-Nov-2002
URL: http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID…br>