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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Bloomberg<\/b> –<\/p>\n

TWO decades after Robert Mugabe drove White farmers off their land, Zimbabwe\u2019s agricultural sector is booming.<\/p>\n

The people tending the crops are, again, mostly White farmers.<\/p>\n

Mugabe\u2019s often violent program, partly designed to bolster political support ahead of a crucial election, slashed exports, prompted Western nations to impose sanctions, and tipped the country into economic turmoil. The state\u2019s now seeking funds to compensate the ejected farmers.<\/p>\n

Today, the fertile land around the capital, Harare, is dotted with expensive irrigation equipment, and wheat, corn, and tobacco production is soaring, while a nascent blueberry industry is earning precious foreign currency.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s own targets see soybean output more than tripling this season and the crucial tobacco crop jumping 75%.<\/p>\n

The state-controlled Sunday Mail on Oct. 24 crowed about the \u201csuccessful implementation of the historic land reform program\u201d that \u201csought to correct historical imbalances in land distribution and ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reality, it has failed.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwean farming is dominated by large companies such as British American Tobacco and Innscor Africa that hire growers to produce on their behalf on a commercial scale.<\/p>\n

Many of the Black Zimbabweans who occupy the fields as a result of Mugabe\u2019s seizures are paid just a few percent of profits by those who manage the land.<\/p>\n

Without the skills or the capital to cultivate effectively, those who do farm themselves sell on a small scale to the companies and complain they barely make ends meet.<\/p>\n

While Mugabe\u2019s programme may have been politically expedient, it pushed the economy into decline and destroyed industries. Ultimately, it\u2019s done little to rectify the historical wrongs he said justified the sometimes fatal attacks that accompanied the seizures and made the country an international pariah.<\/p>\n

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