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Video: Zimbabwe farmers help Nigeria
28 Oct 2009 05:59:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
Oct 27 - Nigeria's decision to invite former Zimbabwean farmers into the country to farm is already improving the agricultural sector, heavily dependent on food imports.

Nigeria invited 13 farmers and their families in 2005 to live in the central Nigeria, about 400 km northwest of Lagos, after they lost their livelihoods in Zimbabwe's controversial land reforms.




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REUTERS PICTURES OF THE DECADE. Zimbabwean commercial farmer Tommy Bayley rides an old bicycle ahead of war veterans and villagers who invaded his farm Danbury Park, 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) northwest ...



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