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To: Clive
These droughts can be pretty tough.
3 posted on 06/22/2002 4:26:56 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Maceman
"These droughts can be pretty tough."

Especially the unusual kind that you get in Zim.

Characterized by full irrigation dams, burnt-out bore hole pumps, vandalized drip irrigation systems, veldt fires and land from which farm workers have been forcibly evicted.

In 2 years Zim's agrarian sector has gone from highly technological farming system, hedged against dry spells using modern planning and a net exporter of agricultural products to become a medieval, subsistence, slash-and burn, scratch agricultural system in which irrigation means sending the wife and the girls a kilometer or more to fetch pails of water from the nearest stream.

4 posted on 06/22/2002 4:59:52 AM PDT by Clive
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