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[QUOTE]Originally posted by IronLion: [QB] Dog you stinky liar, Mkushi is not the CENTER of Zambia's agriculture. Post a citation besides your weak lies proving your claims. Also, being the liar you are, when you cut and pasted the article about Mkushi from the BBC worldnews, you conveniently edited this part. I hereby reproduce it for all well wishers of Africa: [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56251000/jpg/_56251132_afpscott.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] Hired Zimbabwean expertise [b]White farmers who were driven off their land in Zimbabwe have been hired to run[/b] the Chayton operation, bringing with them the intensive farming skills they have honed over decades. The farm manager at Mkushi, Stuart Kearns, became a full-time farmer as a teenager after his father was killed in the Bush War in what was then Rhodesia. Despite his experiences in Zimbabwe he is optimistic about the future of farming in Zambia: "There is huge potential here and I think the thing with Africa is that you have to keep trying again and again. That is something you learn when you grow up here." Chayton promises to "create jobs, introduce sustainable farming methods… provide support and training to small-scale farmers". Zambia's vice-president Dr Guy Scott voiced concern about job losses But there are considerable obstacles - poor infrastructure and bureaucracy stand in the way of Zambia becoming a major exporter of food to the continent. At the moment Chayton is only producing for the local market. And in an interview with Newsnight, the country's new vice-president, Dr Guy Scott, a farmer himself, was sceptical of some of the claims made by the company: "I am very sceptical because I've been around a lot and I know what proposals look like and what justifications look like in the investment game and I would say that 90% of what is promised turns out not to be true… not necessarily because of any venality or any deliberate fraud. "I mean people hope for the best. They hope it is going to work. And the government hopes it is going to work. And we all get each others hopes up. And then you find 'oh dear we didn't actually succeed in having the social impact or economic impact we'd hoped for'." Displacement fears Dr Scott worries about the social impact of job losses due to more intensive farming where machines take the place of people: Local small-scale farmers complain about problems securing capital "I think the main problem is that the population for Zambia is that the population is about four times too big for the economy. And I think that is the danger with large scale intensive farming; it tends to be capital intensive, it tends not to create jobs and at the same time tends to displace people who are unemployed from their fallback position which is to be subsistence farmers." Chayton acknowledge that their modernised farming methods have already led to job losses, but insist that as the business grows it will create employment in spin-off businesses: "Yes, over time some of the less skilled work goes as a result of mechanisation, but we are building a large scale business so over time we are creating other jobs," Ms Tonelli says. "What we are able to do is train people to do highly skilled jobs which they can continue to use in a career in agriculture of transfer to other sectors as well." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/9623031.stm [/QUOTE]Sorry baleful dog, sorry! Did that hurt? :D [IMG]http://wordpandit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/malevolent.gif[/IMG] True face of Alsatian Dog M. Besides malevolence there are days when you are just simply hungry, hungry for the so-called "good life" of pinks: [IMG]http://redstarcafe.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/hungrydog.jpg?w=500[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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