Zimbabwe - Second Resettlement Project (ADF)

The project falls within the Governments Intensive Resettlement Programme designed to meet needs of the war displaced people and to ease land pressure on heavily populated communal areas. The provision under the project aim at improving health and general well being of the settler population through resettlement activities. The project aims at settling 2979 families in an area covering about 107,000 ha. The families will be resettled in 93 villages each with about 32 households. The total area for agricultural development will increase to about 8360 ha at full development. Crops to be grown will include maize, sunflower, beans, groundnuts, cotton, wheat, soya beans, oriental tobacco, vegetables and sorghum. Most of the remaining area (about 99,000 ha) will be used for livestock. The total number of livestock it estimated to increase to 6548 and these will be used for draught-power, meat and milk production. The project will provide the necessary agricultural support (land development, credit, extension, dips, woodlot plantation, irrigation development and management); social infrastructure: Rural Service Centres (RSC) with clinics and co-operative storage depots classrooms, roads and water supply points for each village. The project will also provide office, vehicles and housing for staff in five RSCs and will be implemented over a five-year period.