1. Posted on Thursday 10 May 2012 - 09:45

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   Problem Masau

   

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   Problem Masau, AfricaNews reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe

   Resettled farmers in Zimbabwe are failing to utilize land due to inadequate farming inputs and lack of resources. "The owner of this farm is not around, he lives in Harare and we pay rentals to him, he is not into farming and he come here occasionally to collect his rentals, we don't use the whole farm," said another peasant farmer in Mapinga.

   

   A survey by this reporter showed that at some farms, the beneficiaries have since relocated to other places subletting the land to other people.
   
   Bushy land which used to be green belts can be seen along Harare- Chinhoyi with silos at Banket in sorry state.
   
   The government haphazardly distributed land to the incapacitated peasant farmers without providing the necessary resources to kick start them into farming.
   
   Most farmers said though they are proud land owners their ‘fortune’ do not translate into tangible benefits as the land lie idle ever year.
   
   “We have a dam here but we cannot utilize it because we do not have the irrigation pipes, the MP of this area promised us the irrigation pipes when he was campaigning but nothing tangible have come out since,” said a farmer in Chegutu.
   
   The situation has been worsened by corrupt officials who are taking agricultural inputs meant for farmers.
   
   Grain Marketing Board has been fingered out in shoddy deals. Farmers say the parastatal’s incompetence is threatening to frustrate government’s land reform programme.
   
   Since government embarked on the land reform programme in 2000, farmers who have been ‘soldiers’ of this revolution, have been faced with a number of challenges that have frustrated their efforts over the years.
   
   Addressing delegates at an Agribusiness Forum in South Africa last year, Prime Minister Tsvangirai said while he genuinely believed in supporting the empowerment of indigenous people in the area of agriculture, his belief was to go further than simply doling out a farm without title, training, markets or downstream processing industries to enable beneficiation and value-addition to their products.
   
   "Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot have a progressive society by creating more peasants, without security of tenure on their land and without the relevant infrastructure to engage in meaningful agriculture that averts food insecurity," he told the delegates.
   
   A government official and an economist who declined to be named, however, acknowledged that farmers were failing to fully utilize the land but was adamant that the land reform alleviated poverty.
   
   “Prior to the fast track land reform process, large commercial farms received strong credit line support from both state and private financial institutions, while nearly all smallholders lacked such support. After fast track land reform, most of the private financial companies withdrew altogether from offering credit to farmers”
   
   “Only two percent of resettled farmers "benefitted from private sector crop input schemes and none were beneficiaries for livestock programs."
   
   Financial support for the burgeoning number of farmers fell to the state, which was ill equipped to meet the need, with its financial resources stretched to the breaking point by economic sanctions. As a result, only a small percentage of resettled farmers were able to benefit from adequate credit support, compelling most of them to rely on their own savings to manage.
   
   "Contrary to the rosy picture painted of the apartheid-era inherited land ownership pattern, most commercial farms focused on export crops."
   
   “International NGOs for the most part refused to provide any services to resettled farmers, and focused their efforts elsewhere. Relying for their funding on Western governments hostile to the land reform process, NGOs were loath to support the beneficiaries of a process they preferred to see fail.
   
   Less than three percent of resettled farmers received extension support from NGOs. "Input assistance from NGOs was even lower with 1.7 percent of the beneficiaries having received such support."
   
   “And yet, despite all obstacles, many resettled farmers have managed to prosper. According to the IDS study, "impressive investments have been made in clearing the land, in livestock, in equipment, in transport and in housing, the scale of investment carried out by people themselves, and without significant support from government or aid agencies, is substantial, and provides firm foundations for the future."
   
   "Cattle holdings have a direct impact on crop production, and "the value of draft power, transport and manure is substantial. A recent study showed herd sizes in the resettled areas have grown, while households without cattle have declined.

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