Increase in labour cost, increase in pesticide and fertilizer cost ......

As for the land reform contributing to economic growth ..... you call what's
happening in Zim growth and development?! Let me see:
Petrol price somthing like R70 a litre that's about U$10 a litre, que's for
food, no more electricity, agricultural production went through the floor
(there's hardly any left etc etc etc. THINK AGAIN!!!!

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This is a worthwhile thread.
Pity that posters can't refrain from top-posting, and too long lines.
My input is at the bottom.
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someone wrote:-

3. Evidence on the impact of land reform in Zimbabwe
A panel survey of resettlement households started in 1983 shows
clearly that resettled
households' well-being has improved dramatically over the past 20
years: imes as high;
see table 1).
The 70,000 households which have so far benefited from land
redistribution, represent
about 5% of the peasant farmer population, but produce between 15
and 20% of the
marketed output of maize and cotton, while also largely satisfying
their own food
consumption needs (Moyo, 1995).
Redistribution efforts so far (3.2 million ha) have had no
negative impact on large-scale
commercial farm output, given the extent of underutilization of
arable land in the large-
scale commercial farm sector.
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Well their are short term benefits in enabling families to employ
themselves in subsistance farming.
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From those who know about southern african agriculture, I'm
interested in an opinion on the recent massive vegetable price
increases in south africa. I see no climatic reason for this.

Is this due to the murdering of the many afrikaans and portuguese
farmers ? Is it that much of vegetable production is on a smaller
scale than grain, and that the veg-farmers cannot amortise the
cost of a private army to protect them ?

So would this then be a 'leading indicator' ?

-- Chris Glur.