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It was a venture meant to change fortunes of hundreds of farmers. The ‘magic house’ that was what farmers were told. But from my field visits to various regions in what was the former Western Province the story is discouraging.
Scenes of abandoned greenhouses is what I encounter. How would one spend hundreds of thousands to build the greenhouse only to abandon it? On further inquiry I leant that farmers feel cheated and betrayed.
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