Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka has said at least 260,000 people are on the waiting list to be allocated farms.Masuka was speaking during a field day in Kwekwe, before putting unproductive farmers on notice.The senior government official confirmed that at least 304 whites are occupying farms in the country.

“We have taken 99% of land from former white farmers and we have 304 white farmers occupying farming land. We have now given them tenure documents and offer letters,” he said.“On the other hand nearly 300,000 black farmers are occupying both A1 and A2 farms.

Each family was given two acres for agriculture purposes, a residential plot measuring 200 sq metres and a house in Kanpur Dehat district.

Main photo: UP CM distributes approval letter for land lease for rehabilitation of 63 Hindu families (Photo: PTI)

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday handed houses, agricultural land and residential plots to 63 Hindu families displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

Los conflictos por distribución de tierras se han tornado más violentos y con matices políticos en los últimos años, según advirtió el director de la Fundación Tierra.

Matices políticos y una violencia en ascenso son los principales rasgos de los conflictos por la distribución de tierras en los últimos años en Bolivia, con afectaciones especialmente sobre los derechos indígenas, advirtió en una entrevista con Efe el director de la privada Fundación Tierra, Juan Pablo Chumacero.