When baboons raid the maize field in broad daylight, monkeys find a merry time in the orchard. The centre stops holding and things fall apart.
This is what is exactly happening with Zimbabwe's command agriculture. Here is that season when every hobo in town fancies him or herself a farmer, so people are trooping out to register to "farm" under the scheme. Herd boys, maids, civil servants who can't tell white chalk from loam soil, red-carpet politicians and plumbers. They are all going there and it's a free-for-all circus.
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