Zimbabwe to start paying white farmers compensation after April

Reuters ^ | April 8, 2019 4:56 AM | MacDonald Dzirutwe

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Reuters stories on the topic still come spinning like an artillery shell but they missed the significant issue again. Zimbabwe's farming was forcibly altered from productive large-scale farming to small-scale subsistence farming, which now composes around 80% of all farming in that country. "Subsistence" farming is just that: they don't grow anything for sale to hungry city people. This is the very centerpiece of Marxist "land reform" and it doesn't work. They relearned that lesson in Venezuela a couple of years ago when forcing non-farmers into the field for "volunteer" (i.e. free) labor didn't result in the hoped-for cornucopia.

What you have in large-scale farming is a surplus that may tide you over in years of bad harvest. You don't get that with subsistence farming: a single bad harvest results in starvation. It's been that way for at least 10,000 years but the political people, they still haven't figured it out.