Obert Jiri, Permanent Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development, said the government has surveyed farms for 13,000 A2 farmers who are now ready to receive title deeds.
In a recent interview, Jiri also said the Ministry is providing productivity booster kits for A1 farmers.
The kits include title deeds and irrigation systems to help A1 farmers increase their productivity.
A1 farmers are mostly former communal farmers, landless people, or war veterans who farm mainly for subsistence or household use.
A2 farmers, on the other hand, are civil servants, business professionals, and middle-class elites who focus on large-scale, export-oriented, or intensive commercial farming. Said Jiri:
“We have 13,000 A2 farmers who are ready for title deeds because their farms have been surveyed.
“Of those that are surveyed, we have managed to connect these survey diagrams to the actual farmers for 7,756.
“So these farmers can now come in anytime. And we are now busy calling them and making sure that they can get their title deeds as quickly as possible.
“Of course, for the A1 farmers, over 280,000, it has been slow, but we’ve managed to do over 400 in Mashonaland Central, and we are now rolling that program out for productivity booster kits, which deliver title deeds together with an irrigation system to the A1 farmers.
“We are now rolling it out to the rest of the country. So it has been slow learning, how to do it smoothly and legally.
Jiri said the programme was delayed because payments had to be made in cash. He said:
“Now we also have the mortgage payments, which are done through the banks. And it is the mortgage payments which had a lot of teething problems because we needed a lot of legal instruments to ensure that the mortgage process is watertight.
“So, we are now in cruise mode. We should expect more deeds to be rolled out in this quarter and certainly in the second quarter of 2026.
“It’s just teething problems that we were facing, mainly to do with the process itself.”
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