xport market, under the Export Processing Zone deal, as well as meeting the countrys domestic needs. MDC losing candidate for Chipinge North Mathias Mlambo admitted the farm grabbing by Zanu (PF) officials, with very little knowledge of farming expertise, has destroyed not only the country major suppliers of tea and coffee, but effectively cut off foreign currency from export sales. He added that the country should expect to run out of both tea and coffee in the not too distant future because of the situation in Chipinge. It’s a sad state of affairs here. Where we used to see coffee and tea, there is only grass and worse still, this is all what you see on all the farms that were seized by Zanu (PF) people, said Mlambo. SW Radio Africa
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2.12.2005
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Remaining farms grabbed
Chipinge has been host to the countrys best tea and coffee producing farms over the last 50 years. In reality, this means that what took more than half a century to build has taken less than a year to be destroyed. At its peak, the Chipinge farming community used to produce tea and coffee for the e