Society: The other side of Chirumhanzu’s Cheza

AT the launch of a new agriculture development company African Farming Solutions eight years ago, former Commercial Farmers Union president Charles Taffs said farming was a business and not everyone can necessarily be a farmer.

“Farming must be done professionally and to do otherwise is to promote poverty and perpetual dependency and we must move away from this phenomenon,” Taffs said then.
Critics of the land reform programme led by the late former President Robert Mugabe concur with Taffs’s assertions as vast tracts of once productive farmlands lie idle today, with overgrown weeds and bushes.

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