Closing the Mechanisation Gap: Tractors for Zimbabwe’s Villages

Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka Government plans to put 25-horsepower tractors in the hands of village, school and youth enterprises, giving smallholder farmers access to machinery long enjoyed mainly by large commercial farms. For generations, Zimbabwe’s farming has run on two tracks. Large commercial farmers plough, plant and harvest with machinery. Most smallholder farmers, who work...