In preparation for transition to Zimbabwe. The second point is the fear of the vocal European farming community that, without worked out guarantees for their future security, a constitution that gives wide powers to change existing institutions and structures is likely to lead to a mass exodus and the strong possibility of total economic collapse. This highlights even more the inequalities in access to the land. Commercial agriculture as employer and foreign exchange earner commercial agriculture sector played important role in the economic prosperity of Rhodesia as major labor employer, significant foreign exchange earner, supplier of food for domestic consumption and as provider of inputs for the manufacturing sector. Tribal Trust Land.
Commercial land is open to purchase under freehold title.
Tribal Trust Land is held under communal tenure by various tribal land authorities who are empowered to allocate arable plots to Africans in their jurisdiction and allow them access to communal grazing land, under the guidance of the overseeing Tribal Trust Land Board. Per-capita size of farming land for Africans 24 hectares. In short, while African farmers in Rhodesia suffered on overused and overpopulated farming lands, their European counterparts possessed underutilized and un used lands. For many Europeans the original acquisition of the land has been due to loans, received especially from the Agricultural Finance Corporation, a statutory body. He added that there was a fivefold increase in the level of loans and subsidies to European farmers since Unilateral Declaration of In dependence, UDI, by resident Europeans, led by Ian Smith in 1964.