Hosia Mviringi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa as reiterated the irreversibility of the land reform saying that the chapter was long closed.
Speaking in Kwekwe at the occasion of the annual Field Day tour at his Precabe Farm at Sherwood, the President said that the land question was the major grievance that motivated the armed struggle.
“The primary grievance of our revolution was our land. There would be no fulfilment of our revolution if we did not own the land. Land redistribution is irreversible. Our task is to make the land productive and government must assist. It is a must for our people to be food secure. We will never be food insecure,” said the President.
Turning to the role of government in the broader quest for increased national productivity, President Mnangagwa said that the role of government remains that of supporting our farmers to become as productive as they possibly can. In the same vein he said government remains committed to rolling out such programmes as Pfumvudza to make sure that there is no excuse for not producing on the farms.
“The role of government is to provide inputs at Pfumvudza level so that each household is given adequate seed and fertilizer in order to realise food security. If the household is food secure, it means the village, and ultimately the community is food secure.”
“We will continue to increase hectarage under irrigation under irrigation. We are a very modest people as people of Zimbabwe. We are most welcoming, friends to all and enemy to none as our Foreign Policy. Let those who hate us do so, but our primary focus is to be food self sufficient and we want to develop and modernize our country,” he continued.
The President urged the Chiefs and all community leaders as custodians of culture and tradition to encourage their subjects in communities to embrace the philosophy of self production and food self-sufficiency.
Zimbabwe’s land reform program which empowered in excess of 300000 previously disadvantaged indigenous Zimbabweans has been the target of Western sanctions whose main purpose remains to cripple the country’s agricultural sector, this in the vain hope of reversing the highly successful agrarian reforms. However, thinking outside the box, the country has found ways to make lemonade out of the lemons thrown at it.
“Sanctions have enabled us to think outside the box. We have learnt how to use our domestic resources to develop our country. We are called to be proud that we are Zimbabwean. We must love our neighbours. Above all, God blesses those nations that love others, who promote peace and harmony,” said the President, – tategurutv
