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Peasants accuse presidential candidates of marginalising small scale agriculture
By Clement Ntauzi
More than 250 farmers from across the country gathered at the Third International Peasants Conference on Land, held on October 1 and 2, with the aim of deepening the public and democratic debate on the structural challenges facing agriculture and of denouncing the policies of the candidates running for President of the Republic, who ignore and marginalise small scale agriculture in favour of large scale agribusiness. Experience has shown us that large scale farming harms small scale farmers. It is we peasants who feed this country and not the companies that produce cash crops for export and usurp our lands, increasing the incidence of poverty amidst our communities But these candidates for president ignore such facts , said Rabeca Mabui, Vice-President of the Peasants Union for the Province of Maputo. All the candidates say they want to mechanise agriculture, creating large far