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Table 6.7: Farm Block Development in Zambia

Province

Name of block

Total area for
development

________________(ha)

Area
developed
__________
(ha)

Farms created

(#)

Central

Copperbelt

Kantolo-Luankuni

4,050

NA'

21

Luansobe

12,000

NA

36

Eastern

Mwasemphangwe

9,340

NA

NA

Luapula

Muchimadzi

Chitondo

4,000

4,000

66

Mansa

NA

NA

22

Lusaka

Shikabeta

2,900

2,600

69

Northern

Longwe
Mwita

4,428

9,500

4,428

-

9b1

North-Westem

Mikilingi

18,526

7,474

12

Southern

NA but in most areas
identified

Varied

Varied

644

Western

Kalumwange

Lombe Lombe

21,000

6,000

69

a. NA = not available.

b. This block is now part of the resettlement program.

Source: National Commission for Development Planning, Economic Report, 1990.

(e) Farm Block Development Program. This program was started in the mid-1980s to make
additional land available for commercial agriculture. Each province identified the location and
hectareage of land for inclusion in the program, and, with assistance from the government
through the resettlement program, farmers were settled. By the end of 1990, farm blocks had
been developed in each of the provinces except the Central province. Table 6.7, above, gives
details of the development program up to 1990.

(0 Settlement schemes. A program launched in 1986 called for the development of new areas in
each district for settling people that wanted to develop agricultural plots smaller than those
settlements provided for commercial farmers. By 1990, ten schemes had been developed, with
at least one in each of the nine provinces. A list of the schemes and their location is presented
in table 6.8.

(g) Settlement schemes for the handicapped. Fourteen settlement farms with a total of 318
hectares and a settler population of approximately 600 had been established by 1985
throughout the country.



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