ARDA is implementing the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture Fisheries, Water and Rural Development’s Joint Venture Farming Programme to contract 100 000 hectares to farmers for the summer crops for the 2023/2024 farming season.
Changachimire (46), a Karoi-based farmer, allegedly misrepresented to ARDA that he was the owner of Temple Combe Farm, resulting in him receiving inputs amounting to 20 tonnes of Compound D Fertilizer, 625 Kgs seed maize and chemicals.
After receiving the inputs, he reportedly traded the 20 tonnes of Compound D fertilizer and 125 Kgs of PAN7M seed maize for 30 tonnes of wheat with one Henk Terblanche, a farmer at Kent Farm.
511 bags of fertilizer were recovered at Kent Farm.
Changachimire appeared at Provincial Magistrate Courts in Chinhoyi on Wednesday, 31 January and was remanded to 1 February 2024 for a bail hearing.