Zimbabwe: Government Reduces Farm Sizes
February 17, 2020
1:15 pm
Government has streamlined the sizes of all individual farms in the country’s five ecological regions, in a move that will see more people having access to land.
The reduction in farm sizes will also boost capacity utilisation of land following concerns that some farms were unnecessarily big and underutilised.
Government compulsorily acquired over 12 million hectares of arable land previously occupied by white farmers, resulting in some black beneficiaries getting vast swathes of land they cannot put to effective use.
The downsizing of farms, which has been ongoing, starts with recommendations from the respective provincial lands committees.
The Ministry of
