Minister of Economic Development Sylvester Nguni of Zimbabwe

Minister of Economic Development Sylvester Nguni is the Acting Minister of Agriculture following the departure of Rugare Gumbo.

Speaking at the same occasion, Zimbabwean Minister of Economic Development Sylvester Nguni said China had become the single largest investor in Zimbabwe and the two countries should, therefore, continue to develop synergies, which would lead to a win-win situation for both countries.

Deputy Agriculture Minister Sylvester Nguni was quoted in the state-owned Herald newspaper as saying that while a few of those given land were committed to agricultural production, many others were doing nothing on the farms.

Mr Nguni was speaking to the annual congress of the Zimbabwe Farmers Union, which represents skilled black farmers largely left out of the land redistribution.

Nguni was speaking to a meeting of the Farmers Union, which represents black farmers left out of the land redistribution.

The country's food shortages is due in part to government seizures of white-owned land , Deputy Agriculture Minister Sylvester Nguni has said.

We have a few people that are really committed to production while many others are doing nothing on the farms," Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sylvester Nguni was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald newspaper.

Minister of Agriculture following the departure of Rugare Gumbo.

JOHANNESBURG, 15 March 2006 (PlusNews) - Southern Africa needs new measures to combat the impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and food security, Zimbabwean Agriculture Deputy Minister, Sylvester Nguni has said.

Nguni said the strategy would anchor the national budgets for each year of the period under which it would be in operation to ensure the implementation of set targets.

Deputy Agriculture Minister Sylvester Nguni was quoted by the Herald as saying that the expected yields of the staple maize crop had been revised downwards by 50 per cent.

But Nguni said only crops grown with the aid of fertilizer, including natural fertilizer such as manure, stood any chance of producing anything.

Nguni says that land was often given to people who know nothing about farming.

Intro: Farmers should concentrate on production without any fear of being removed from the farms as the Government will not allow disruptions, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Cde Sylvester Nguni said yesterday.

Addressing farmers at the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association's 46th annual congress in Harare, Cde Nguni said cases of farm disruptions had dropped since last year.

Nguni said it was time to face the truth.

The government has instituted a series of land audits, but Nguni said they were being conducted by officials with no knowledge of agriculture.

Nguni was recently quoted in the media admitting that the country had run out of food because land seized from whites was given to amateurs with no “passion for farming.

On allegations that he had previously been allocated a piece of land where he was undertaking horticultural projects, Nguni said he had long disinvested from the project.