Libya Donates Agricultural Equipment to Zimbabwe

Libya has donated agricultural equipment to Zimbabwe under a program codenamed “The Green Programme” and aimed at assisting the southern African country improve food security, state media reported here on Saturday.

The state-owned Herald daily said Libya donated eight tractors and fuel to Zimbabwe as part of “The Green Programme” launched in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Friday.

The program is funded by the Libya Fund for Aid and Development in Africa, which will be responsible for all operations, maintenance and storage of the tractors and equipment.

The newspaper quoted the Charge d’Affaires at the Libyan embassy in Harare, Ali Elbatel, as saying similar projects were being implemented in other African countries under the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Al Fatah Revolution.

Zimbabwe is in the process of trying to revive its agricultural sector, battered by eight years of economic sanctions and the forcible removal of former white farmers from their properties.

Agricultural output has slumped by more than 50 percent since the government chased more than 4,000 farmers from their land and embarked on the land reform program in 2000.

Source African Press Agency

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