I spoke to a man last week -- one of my family on my wife's side -- who benefited from our government's land redistribution programme. The government donated a farm to the local community, he said, and a tractor. The community divided the farm into allotments, and began to cultivate it. Some did poorly, while others did well. He himself did quite well, he said. But there was a problem, which caused the whole project to collapse. He said: "You can go and look at the farm today. All of it lies dry and fallow. The tractor is broken. It is still there, stuck in the field." He said the problem was security: "I was putting time and money into farming for thieves." OBSERVATION: The government forgot to provide one thing.
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