Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement

  THE government has started charging new farmers rent for occupying houses on more than 6,200 farms countrywide allocated to them under the land reform programme, we can reveal today. On average, occupants of the farmhouses will pay between $400 and $1,000 per annum depending on the size and condition of the houses. These new rentals are over and above the $5 per hectare farmers are paying to the government annually as land rent. The…