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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Gushungo Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1.4 million to a prominent butcher.<\/p>\n

The Independent reports that the development has rendered about 120 workers jobless.<\/p>\n

The publication further reports that the company had a US$20 million debt, which forced the entity to auction some of its equipment to pay creditors.<\/p>\n

The estate, formerly known as Foyle Farm before the property was parcelled to the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (ARDA) by the then Agriculture ministry, measures 1 200 hectares.<\/p>\n

It was later taken by the late former president Robert Mugabe who set up a state-of-the-art dairy plant in Mazowe \u2014 about 40km north of Harare. Over 80 newly resettled farmers in Mazowe were forcibly removed to pave way for Mugabe\u2019s business venture.<\/p>\n

Gushungo Dairy equipment was imported from South Africa for about US$15 million at a time when Mugabe was ruling Zimbabwe. The company Alpha Omega Dairy (Pvt) Ltd under the Gushungo Estates produced milk, yoghurt, cheese and ice cream.<\/p>\n

Sources told the Zimbabwe Independent this week that Grace Mugabe failed to run the business resulting in the sale of 700 dairy cows to a local butcher.<\/p>\n

At market value, each dairy cow costs around US$$2 000, but the butcher could have bought them at a lesser price as the cattle were meant for beef. Said the anonymous source:<\/p>\n

Gushungo Dairy is closed. Workers have been sent home; about 120 of them. Just a few were left doing menial jobs.<\/p>\n

The Independent reports that the dairy equipment is lying idle as a millionaire businessman who is renting the farm has not yet started producing.<\/p>\n

Apart from the collapsed Gushungo Dairy, a 1 000 pig and 6 000 chicken project at Mugabe\u2019s rural Kutamba village home, suffered a natural death as Grace neglected the projects.<\/p>\n

Mugabe left a huge business portfolio mainly in farming with 21 farms which were acquired when his government touted the one-man-one-farm land policy.<\/p>\n

Signs of financial problems started showing in May 2019 after Gushungo Dairy Farm auctioned five combine harvesters, five Toyota Hilux pick-up trucks and other farm equipment. Mugabe later died on September 6, 2019.<\/p>\n

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