US-based finance publication Bloomberg has reported recently the Zimbabwean Agriculture sector is booming once again.

The publication attributes the development to the "return of white farmers" who had been dispossessed two decades ago when the government of the late founding leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe embarked on the Land Reform Programme. According to the publication:

The people tending the crops are, again, mostly white farmers.

Mugabe's often violent program, partly designed to bolster political support ahead of a crucial election, slashed exports, prompted Western nations to impose sanctions and tipped the country into economic turmoil. The state's now seeking funds to compensate the ejected farmers.

Today, the fertile land around the capital, Harare, is dotted with expensive irrigation equipment and wheat, corn and tobacco production is soaring, while a nascent blueberry industry is earning precious foreign currency.

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