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By Nhau Mangirazi Hurungwe Chief Mjinga Mutenhe Madadairwa aged (75) is bitter that tobacco farmers are doing lot of injustice to the environment and are therefore enemies from within communities. He is aggrieved that communal farmers under his jurisdiction in Hurungwe East joined tobacco farming and are destroying forests. One of the affected areas is within Tengwe, formerly a prime farming area that produces cash crops including tobacco, soya beans, maize and wheat in Hurungwe district within Mashonaland West. He added, ‘‘Tobacco has brought a lot of devastation around our communities. We have witnessed unwarranted natural destruction of nature around,’’ Besides earning the country foreign currency of over one billion US dollars, Zimbabwe’s golden leaf farming has forced the country to witness deforestation where resettled farmers on large tracks of land have left it bare facing desertification. ....
Interest in agriculture underlines gains of Independence Leroy Dzenga CHIMURENGA, in all its installations was a war for land. The history behind the liberation war and the fight for independence was rooted in the deprivation of a resource, indigenes had known as infinite and abundant. It is, therefore, a cause for celebration, that Zimbabwe is arguably the only country in the world that has successfully managed to achieve a comprehensive land reform programme post colonisation. Other countries can only marvel at the tea-pot-shaped nation’s revolutionary achievements. At last week`s Post-Cabinet briefing, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa announced that this year’s independence theme is; ‘Zim@41-Together, Growing our Economy for a Prosperous, Resilient and Inclusive Society.’ The theme speaks to the national mood, where people from different backgrounds are in search of opportunities through agriculture. ....
The country is set to achieve food self-sufficiency this year after two successive seasons of drought . Increased targeted investments in the agricultural sector will help the progress being made by the country to reclaim its status as the breadbasket of the region. Programmes such as Pfumvudza/Intwasa Conservation Scheme, Zunde Ramambo, National Enhanced Crop Productivity Scheme (Command Agriculture), the Livestock Growth Plan and mechanisation have assisted in increasing productivity. In his year-end State of Agriculture report, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Anxious Masuka said the trend needs to be maintained and sustained. “We are on course to achieving national food security in 2021, but we want permanent national food security,” said Dr Masuka. ....