Disastrous wheat season looms

BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe, already grappling with bread shortages, faces a major slump in wheat production this year because farm invasions that resumed after President Robert Mugabe's government lost elections in March have disrupted the winter planting season, farming experts said.

They said politically inspired farm invasions and violence, coupled with a chronic shortage of seed and Fertilizer, could turn the 2008 wheat farming season into a disaster.

“The winter wheat cropping season will be a disaster because of the disturbances at the farms coupled with the shortage of farm inputs, such as seeds and fertilizer,” said Marc Crawford, who is president of the Southern Africa Commercial Framers Alliance (SAFCA). – ZimOnline

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