Published: 02 September 2013

President Mugabe on Friday took a swipe at unproductive new farmers, whom he alleged were using outdated farming techniques.

Officially opening the Harare Agricultural Show, Mugabe slammed resettled farmers for using Stone Age farming techniques.

Mugabe called on new farmers to "embrace new technologies in order to empower our agriculture."

The Zanu-PF leader admitted that the country's livestock production was still stuttering and promised to assist farmers to jump-start the agricultural sector which used to be the mainstay of the economy before the advent of the land reform programme in 2000.

After chiding new farmers for employing archaic methods, Mugabe turned his focus on black farmers leasing out their properties to evicted white farmers. 
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