The winter crop was either not planted or the farmers are being prevented from tending such of it that is in the ground, let alone harvest it.
The fertilizer and seed for the coming summer crop is not going to bepurchased, let alone planted.
All the published forcasts of food shortages are based on tiding southern Africa over until the next summer harvest next March and April.
There isn't going to be one.
ZIMBABWEAN industries providing inputs to the agriculture sector could be prejudiced of more than $100 billion in revenue in the coming farming season because of the government's land reforms, a development that could have far-reaching consequences for the country's already troubled economy.
"Land reforms"? That first sentence tells you all you need to know about where this article is coming from. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that siezing the land from productive farmers and forbidding them to grow crops will "prejudice" the entire economy. But they refuse to call a spade a spade. Idiots.
Mugabe's a genius. He's figured out how to keep any other tribe from taking over Zimbabwe.All that he has to do is run his empire into the ground, cleanse it ethnicly, and starve everyone.
Then England has to come in and re-colonize Zimbabwe after old man Mugabe dies, followed by English money to rebuild all that was destroyed.
< /SARCASM >