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2021-04-09 12:30:36 GMT2021-04-09 20:30:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HARARE, April 9 (Xinhua) The Zimbabwean government has said that it will not accede to the transferability of land because its ownership and farming are two distinctive items that should be separated.
Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Anxious Masuka said farming is a business enterprise where one does not need to own land to be productive, the Herald newspaper reported Friday.
Masuka, who was giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture, said the viability of farming is determined by project proposals and not whether one owns the land or not.
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By Zvamaida Murwira
Farmers under Command Agriculture who failed to repay their loans at the end of last season owing to drought and the Covid-19-induced national lockdown, have been granted a huge relief after Government extended the repayment period by an additional three years.
This means the debt has been restructured and farmers will have to repay it in three instalments for the next three seasons.
CBZ Agro-Yield managing director, Mr Walter Chigodora, said this last week while giving oral evidence before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture Fisheries Water, and Rural Resettlement.
Gamuchirai Masiyiwa, GPJ Zimbabwe Chedra Ganye looks for bedding at Spinweave, which sells local cotton products. Zimbabwe’s struggling economy has h