Zimbabwe: Cotton Farmers Dump Private Merchants

Several cotton farmers are dumping contract schemes by private merchants saying they have long been short-changed through inadequate supply of inputs.

Farmers in Checheche, one of the country's largest cotton growing area in Manicaland Province, told this newspaper that they have for long been short-changed by private firms, which have persistently provided then with inadequate inputs.

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