Posted on 04/26/2002 8:44:01 AM PDT by Clive
WINTER wheat production could decline to at least one third of normal hectarage as more than half of the traditional producers will not plant the crop this year.
In a statement, the Commercial Farmers Union said farmers would plant 20,000 hectares, down from 60,000 hectares traditionally planted by the large-scale commercial sector due to illegal farm evictions and harassment coupled with the issuance of Section 8 orders.
The Zimbabwe Independent heard this week that Agriculture ministry officials told farmers at a meeting at the Selous Country Club that every white farmer would be issued with a Section 8 order in due course while in the same breath encouraging the farmers to grow winter wheat.
Sources who attended the meeting, which was also attended by Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ednah Madzongwe, said the farmers walked out.
CFU president Collin Cloete said in the statement that there were major constraints facing farmers and these had to be addressed before planting of the winter crop could commence.
"Most commercial farmers are now subject to Preliminary Notice of Compulsory Acquisition, which are being served on a daily basis," he said.
Farmers who have been served with a Section 8 order can no longer, by law, plant a crop on their land holdings.
Many other farms yet to receive the Section 8 orders have been shut down by war veterans and farm invaders and are physically unable to continue their operations.
Sometimes I think that I have fallen down a rabbit hole.
It's a completely man-made disaster.
You make your bed, you lie in it.
I'm sure they won't be turned down. Instead, they'll bail out Mugabe and condemn the white farmers who refuse to feed the country.
I wish it weren't true, but I'm afraid it is.
While I completely agree with your sentiment, I think we can continue to rely on the u.n. to be the weathervane of immoral policy. Kofi, the socialists, and the rest of the third world despots that call the shots in the u.n. will have the grain shipments into Harare in short order.
This famine will be a boon to Mad Bob as he doles out the food and aid to his ZANU PF thugs and allows the rest of his country to starve.
Interesting to see that the leaders of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and the rest of the Sub Saharan region haven’t said anything about Mad Bob’s antics. The Union of African Dictators strikes again…
Owl_Eagle
”Guns before Butter.”
But not for long, eh?
For only a Trudeauesque Cretin and/or a totalitarian-socialist prime minister could mistake Canada for Wonderland!
Eh?
Lets see the newly created farmers do their job.
These farmers should sugar their tractor motors, burn their farmhouse and all other structures, torch their Zim flag, salt the land, and whack every looting "war veteran" they encounter while on their way out of the country.
Leave nothing for looters.
Any white farmers left in Zimdesia will be slaughtered. And there will be plenty to kill.
I agree. This looks to be very similar to Cambodia. The farmers need to leave. And just as importantly, they need somewhere to go.
I'm not big on immigration, but hard working people dispossessed by tyrants are just the kinds of people that built the US. Let them resettle here.
If the US hasn't yet offered amnesty to these refugees, a conservative lobbying effort should be made in their behalf.
And the best of luck to them.
The new settlers are either alluvial soil market garden farmers or urban politicians, soldiers or civil servants.
Nnone of them know their arse from their elbow about red soil veldt farming, cattle ranching or managing game preserves.
As an example, there is at least one case of settlers ignoring a functioning drip irrigation system and carrying water more than a kilometer from the nearest stream.
I had turned my mind to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party and the Trial of the Knave of Hearts.
Particularly Yassir Daschle's senate.
- Singer Elton John, asked who his likely victims were when he played a fantasy game, called Culling, in which people are "shot dead".
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