The congress, scheduled for Wild Geese Lodge in Harare, is also expected to witness the election of a new Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) leadership to take over from the Deon Theron-led council.
The CFU has been working on an agriculture recovery proposal that it has submitted to government for discussion.
Zimbabwe’s beleaguered white farmers have shown growing frustration at failure by the country’s coalition government and their union to end chaos in the farming sector.
The unity government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has watched helplessly as members of the security forces and hardliner activists of Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party intensified a drive to seize all land still in white hands.
The coalition government is yet to act to fulfil the promise to restore law and order in the key agricultural sector, while more farms – including some owned by foreigners and protected under bilateral investment protection agreements between Zimbabwe and other nations— have been seized since 2009.
And to make matters worse, police and judicial officers who are supposed to enforce the rule of law were also among the beneficiaries of the free-for-all land grab.
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