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various social to economic imperatives, largely at a very local level and rarely does
cooperation and solidarity entail distant communities within the Newly Resettled
or Customary Areas (Moyo et al 2009). Eight common areas of cooperation were
observed (see Table 7.4).
Table 7.4: Forms of cooperation among farmers on newly resettled large-scale farms
Areas of
cooperation
sharing of
productive
infrastructure
sharing of
non-productive
infrastructure
reciprocal hiring
arrangements
reciprocal labour
sharing
combined farming
operations
membership in
common agric
and social groups
sharing of advice
and
information
sharing of seed and
planting materials
A1 A2 No. of Households (HH) in parentheses
No. %
of
HH
No. %
of
HH
887 53.7 205 46.8 168
(50.3)
567 34.3 163 37.2 99
(29.6)
568 34.4 164 37.4 166
(49.7)
328 19.9 101 23.1 88
(26.3)
144 8.7 28 6.4 17
(5.1)
129 7.8 56 12.8 41
(12.3)
419 25.4 152 34.7 162
(48.5)
101 6.1 28 6.4 44
(13.2)
Chipinge Chiredzi Goromonzi Kwekwe Mangwe Zvimba Total
141
(60.0)
98
(41.7)
43
(18.3)
43
(18.3)
8
(3.4)
58
(24.7)
93
(39.6)
14
(6.0)
349
(50.2)
218
(31.4)
252
(36.3)
117
(16.8)
63
(9.1)
29
(4.2)
193
(27.8)
43
(6.2)
234
(62.9)
177
(47.6)
110
(29.6)
29
(7.8)
5
(1.3)
9
(2.4)
28
(7.5)
4
(1.1)
104
(71.7)
21
(14.5)
42
(29.0)
54
(37.2)
2
(1.4)
10
(6.9)
45
(31.0)
7
(4.8)
96
(31.2)
117
(38.0)
119
(38.6)
98
(31.8)
77
(25.0)
38
(12.3)
50
(16.2)
17
(5.5)
1092
(52.3)
730
(34.9)
732
(35.0)
429
(20.5)
172
(8.2)
185
(8.9)
571
(27.3)
129
(6.2)
Source: AIAS Baseline Survey, 2007
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