Agriculture a hard sell for Zim’s youth

MAZOWE — Laiza Mukute’s 14-hectare plot is a pale shadow of what it was 10 years ago.

The Mukute family — 43-year-old Laiza, her husband, and three sons — obtained the plot in 2001 under a land reform programme that saw thousands of commercial white farmers evicted and their land allocated to black Zimbabweans.

Laiza’s husband was killed by lightning in 2007.

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