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Mugabe's government ready to work with remaining white farmers
20 Sep 2014 at 21:17hrs | Views
THE Government of Zimbabwe is determined to work with the remaining white commercial farmers in strategic agricultural activities such as forestry plantation, tea, beef and dairy production to allow skills transfer to the newly resettled farmers.
This was said by the Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Christopher Mushohwe on Tuesday at a field day hosted by Matanuska Banana Company at Mutema Irrigation Scheme in Chipinge.
Mushohwe said Government had taken this decision to allow skills transfer, market sourcing as well as accessing machinery in order to empower newly resettled farmers.
"The Government has taken this move to work with white commercial farmers in these strategic farming activities in order to help newly resettled farmers with helpful knowledge so that they will be independent in future.
"Skills transfer is important to our farmers because this is the only way to completely emancipate ourselves since we are already controlling the means of production.
"All stakeholders involved will meet next month (October) to discuss how we can co-operate together in mapping the way forward and how to work together in those strategic areas.
"We need to improve quality of our produce for both export and local market and this can only be achieved by tapping knowledge from commercial farmers already engaged in agro-business," he said Mushohwe, however, said the sparing of those commercial white farmers was conditional and they should co-operate in establishing synergies with the local indigenous farmers.
He said these farmers should also play a role in embracing Government policies such as Zim-Asset to boost agricultural activities by working together.
"We are not simply going to spare these white commercial farmers, but rather consider to which degree they co-operate and work together with local indigenous farmers who are in the same activities as them," he said.
The field day was attended by Matanuska Banana Company and its co-operation partners such as BancABC, ZIM-AED, World Vision and CABS.
This was said by the Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Christopher Mushohwe on Tuesday at a field day hosted by Matanuska Banana Company at Mutema Irrigation Scheme in Chipinge.
Mushohwe said Government had taken this decision to allow skills transfer, market sourcing as well as accessing machinery in order to empower newly resettled farmers.
"The Government has taken this move to work with white commercial farmers in these strategic farming activities in order to help newly resettled farmers with helpful knowledge so that they will be independent in future.
"Skills transfer is important to our farmers because this is the only way to completely emancipate ourselves since we are already controlling the means of production.
"We need to improve quality of our produce for both export and local market and this can only be achieved by tapping knowledge from commercial farmers already engaged in agro-business," he said Mushohwe, however, said the sparing of those commercial white farmers was conditional and they should co-operate in establishing synergies with the local indigenous farmers.
He said these farmers should also play a role in embracing Government policies such as Zim-Asset to boost agricultural activities by working together.
"We are not simply going to spare these white commercial farmers, but rather consider to which degree they co-operate and work together with local indigenous farmers who are in the same activities as them," he said.
The field day was attended by Matanuska Banana Company and its co-operation partners such as BancABC, ZIM-AED, World Vision and CABS.
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