Hungry villagers sell cattle for 4 buckets of grain

GURUVE — Villagers in the Muzarabani floodplain have resorted to selling their livestock for a song  to raise money for food and other needs due to widespread hunger after their crops were washed away by the recent floods that ravaged the area.

Villagers told NewsDay last week that hunger had forced some of them to sell chickens for between $2 and $5, while goats were fetching between $8 and $15, with the majority of their buyers coming from Harare.

“Most of us who have not gone to the high lands after the 2007 floods lost our crop and there is so much hunger.

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