Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Says Black Tobacco Farmers Producing More Than Whites

Source from:  AllAfrica.com 05/16/2017

Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again defended the chaotic land reform programme boasting that black tobacco farmers are now producing more of the golden leaf than the white commercial farmers during the colonial era.

Responding to questions soon after delivering a public lecture on command agriculture at the Midlands State University main campus in Gweru, Mnangagwa said the tobacco production figures justified government's seizure of prime land from the white commercial farmers.

"There used to be a man called Ian Smith who used to rule this country. At the height of production of their tobacco they used to produce 200 million kilogrammes of tobacco," Mngangagwa told the impressionable crowd.

However, he was quick to admit that the land reform programme triggered the collapse of tobacco production. Enditem