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Are Zimbabwe's new farmers winning, 10 years on? [They're farming like its 1799!]
BBC ^ | 30 November 2011 | Martin Plaut

Posted on 12/01/2011 5:53:04 PM PST by grundle

Economic consultant John Robertson suggests that agricultural output is only around 50% of the level it was before the land invasions began in 2000.

The country is also now a net food importer where it once exported grain to the region.


(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boogabooga
This land reform is like going back in time a few hundred years. Instead of having an adult operating a modern, high tech machine producing huge amounts of food, they have child labor and animal labor producing tiny amounts of food.
1 posted on 12/01/2011 5:53:11 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle; Clive

Oxen being more valuable, the wife should be pulling the plow./s

Zim ping


2 posted on 12/01/2011 5:58:13 PM PST by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: grundle

bump


3 posted on 12/01/2011 6:00:23 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: grundle
they have child labor and animal labor producing tiny amounts of food.

But the sacred land has been expunged of the evil white colonialist oppressor ... so they've got that going for them.

4 posted on 12/01/2011 6:02:49 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: grundle

They got rid of all the educated people that knew how to farm. I guess they are just too stupid to live. That what happens when people are racists.


5 posted on 12/01/2011 6:11:21 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: grundle

The ultimate result of Affirmative action farming. The US is experiencing Affirmative action politics and with the same results.


6 posted on 12/01/2011 6:15:56 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: grundle
haven't heard anything out of that idiot enabler Cathy Buckle lately...
7 posted on 12/01/2011 6:36:05 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: grundle

Here’s a thought. Change the name of the country to, say, Rhodesia. Then place some ads in the U.K. for people with farming experience to come and work the land. They can keep whatever land they can work.

And throw that bum Mugabe in jail.


8 posted on 12/01/2011 6:46:25 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: CodeToad

They also decided to eat the seed maize, instead of planting it, ten years back.


9 posted on 12/01/2011 6:58:19 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Rocky
Yo Rock:

where do you get such outlandish ideas from?

10 posted on 12/01/2011 7:01:32 PM PST by beebuster2000
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To: grundle

When working in W. Africa I would ask them if this is the cradle of civilization why are y’all so damn far behind the rest of the world? Or I would tell ‘em, Y’all ought to go into the antique business because you can make even brand new stuff look like crap. Or, if its so great here why do they have so many signs discouraging emigration and why do you cover your wives up to put them on the plane to drop your baby in the United States? Why don’t you make a stand and make this place better?

Africa, spreading misery equally since the beginnings of time. We are going the same way here.


11 posted on 12/01/2011 7:35:36 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Rocky

“And throw that bum Mugabe in jail.”

No. Give Mugabe and his supporters a fair trial and a speedier hanging. (A summary 7.62 NATO solution and dirt nap also works.)

THEN, you bring in the farmers. Nothing useful is accomplished before Mugabe and his scum are permanently neutralized.


12 posted on 12/01/2011 8:22:00 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: ArrogantBustard

mugabe’s idea was so full of rot — the white Africans who farmed those lands were Zimbabweans, not English etc. They were patriotic.


13 posted on 12/02/2011 2:28:26 AM PST by Cronos (Nuke Mecca and Medina now..)
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To: Cronos

Mugabe needs a short rope and a long drop. His followers need the same.


14 posted on 12/02/2011 8:36:42 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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