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Black farmers are producing more tobacco than whites ever did says Mnangagwa

6 years agoFri, 12 May 2017 02:12:42 GMT
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Black farmers are producing more tobacco than whites ever did says Mnangagwa

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has justified the government’s fast track land reform process saying that it had empowered black farmers who were now producing more tobacco than white farmers ever did. Mnangagwa however, conceded that after the fast track land reform programme production had initially gone down drastically.

Speaking at a public lecture on Command Agriculture at the Midlands State University, Mnangagwa said:

There used to be a man called Ian Smith who used to rule this country. At the height of production of their tobacco they used to produce 200 million kilogrammes of tobacco

When we took the land, taking it back to its rightful owners, tobacco production went down below 50 million kilogrammes,

Now we are above 222 million kilogrammes of tobacco a year and this is produced by a bigger number than the whites who were doing it and the cake is now spread to ordinary families in the countryside.

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