MUTARE - Evicted white Zimbabwean commercial farmers have created more than 4,000 jobs in neighbouring Mozambique, where they settled after being ousted from their land back home, a regional governor said."The Zimbabwean farmer,s with about 1,000 hectares (2,400 acres) of
land each have so far generated a total of 4,118 new jobs," Soares
Nhaca, governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, where the
farmers settled, told the media.
Nhaca said there were about 100 Zimbabwean farmers in the fertile
districts of Manica province, growing tobacco, cotton and maize. Most
of the new jobs are on tobacco farms, the governor said, adding that
some farmers also grew mangoes and millet for export to South Africa.
All land in Mozambique belongs to the state and cannot be sold. The Mozambican constitution only allows land to be leased.
Manica province, which borders Zimbabwe, is the most sought-after by foreign farmers.
Staff reporter
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