Opinion / Letters
Open letter to Mugabe from a Black farmer
17 Jun 2015 at 13:15hrs | Views
Dear Mr President!
How does your government fail? I do pray that this letter will find you in good health!
I'm a young small scale farmer, I started my farming with cotton and I was doing very well in the late nineties to early two thousands!
We were doing very well, I remember how busy places like Gokwe would become during marketing season.
People were moving from towns to villages to sell and get employment, the problem started when government put a price embargo which are good for nothing because they have reduced the cotton farmer to nothing, I remember farmers giving there produce to beasts instead of selling at gazzeted prices.
What worries me most is how willing the private companies were willing to buy our products at the right prices but you made it a crime.
I moved from cotton to tobacco and I was happy just for a very short period.
You reduced that to a mere $140?
I don't get it, it's like the government has got issues to settle against its own people. Why Mr President Sir?
You did well you gave us land but we can't enjoy because of your policies.
Save us Cde. We love you, we pray for you and the majority voted you in. Look how good the chicken business is for now, it's suppose to be like that in all agric sectors.
The land you gave us is good for nothing, sooner or later you will take it from us blaming us for not utilising it fully, how can we Mr Mugabe sir!
Please bring back foreign investors like Cargill and give them the freedom to purchase our products at competent prices!
Source - Concerned Farmer
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