The Land Reform Program

The Zimbabwe's land reform program has seen a lot of white farmers loose their land .This policy is viewed by the "public media "as a good policy that corrected the unjust distribution of land that was there during the colonial period.The has policy has however been another story in the "private media". The private media decided to rather call it the land grabbing rather than the land reform . The question is then that what benefits did the land reform give to the black people? In other words was the land reform a benefit to ordinary Zimbabweans? This blog is influenced by the articles where the Zimbabwean President "threatens to take land from the remaining white farmers".

A white family during the land reform program

Black people threaten white people to leave a farm 

After the land reform program Zimbabwe  became a country that lacked food security. The black people that took the land from the productive white farmers could not produce as much farm products as the white farmers did . This has been because the black farmers had no experience of the modern farming methods that were being used by the farmers. The dairy cattle were now being used for the African traditional farming. Land meant for grazing was now being used for ploughing and deforestation increased in these former white owned land.

The other reason for the failure of the utilization of land by  the black farmers was that some of the white farmers had to sabotage the farming equipment or the farming land . This was because they felt the bitterness of the land they called theirs being taken away.

There are two ways to move on in Zimbabwe after the land reform program. The first thing to do is to educate the black farmers that managed to get land from the land reform program. The second thing to do is for the government to let the former farmers help the black farmers utilize the land since some of the white farmers are ready to help

The President of Zimbabwe is however not ready to accept any agreement about the land .http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/11442408/Zimbabwes-white-farmers-targeted-for-new-Mugabe-land-grabs.html .