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Farmers to settle in Manica

    JOHANNESBURG

    About 150 Zimbabwean and South African commercial farmers are expected to start settling in the central Mozambican province of Manica, where they will farm over an area covering 440,000 hectares, news reports said.

    The farmers, who will undertake agricultural and livestock farming in the districts of Barue and Macossa, will each be granted about 4,000 hectares and will have tenure rights for a period of 50 years, the province’s governor, Felicio Zacarias said.

    Zacarias said the farmers will settle in Manica in phases over the next five years, and that the investments to be made by the first 60 farmers would amount to about US $30 million. He added that the farmers would concentrate on growing soya, maize, tobacco and sunflowers.

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