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gibe 3n6iati TWtdoy, April 18, 1983 Poo 13 IITTIE LMBV Zimbabwe rewards farmers' 'can-do' spirit peas cows, or ouki LA l5 HCU ofay PQtS wo 3 cons leave and on public holidays. But it is a luxury to many of Cm kaka's 7J million countrymen about million of them peasants to be able to nave well-fed and well-clothed children, as her are. And there are other little signs, like serving guests soft drinks instead of tea or water from a gourd. She also is proud that she can afford for her children to have one or two teaspoons of sugar in their tea. In 1979, the year before independence, the Rhodesian government allocated the equivalent of $1 million in loans to 4,400 peasant farmers.

This year, the government has set aside $3.5 million for 95.000 peasant farmers. time." But a government farm program of low-interest loans and extension services unique to black Africa has made farming a bit easier for Mrs. Chikaka and 950.000 peasant farmers in Zimbabwe. Before the government-run pro-. gram, Chikaka scratched a subsistence living from the sandy soils of her seven-acre patch of earth in Wedza, 90 miles southeast of Harare, the capital.

This year, despite a three-year drought, she will amply feed and clothe her five children, repay her loan of 300 Zimbabwe dollars i about 1200 and still have enough left over to put about 1,200 Zimbabwe dollars ($760) into a bank account. While each fanner, on average, is getting much less than the farmers got in 1979, the government still rates the loan program a success because it is reaching more people. Many of them, restricted by limited personal funds, would be unabte to plant without government help. Also before independence, most of the government's extension programs and services catered to the white, commercial farmers, who earned Rhodesia the title of "the breadbasket of Africa. Today, agriculture extension workers roam the countryside many on motorbikes and bicycles bringing advice to peasant farmers like Chikaka.

She had to pay 10 percent of the loan in cash in advance and the balance, interest-free, when she was paid for her crops. The government restricts the loans to farmers who have proved they can grow crops. Because of her success, Chikaka likely will be eligible for another loan next year. While she has been able to put money in the bank, her homes shows few material signs of an enhanced quality of life. She and her children, ranging from infancy to teen-age, live in a mud hut with a thatched roof and no electricity or running water.

And her husband is a migrant worker in Harare to help support the family. He sees them only during an annual WEDZA. Zimbabwe (AP) Five year agu, Siphiwe Chikaka struggled to grow enough food to feed her family. Today the tella enough corn, cotton, peanut beans and other vegetable to have a thousand dollars in the bank. She it a more opulent example of the general succeta of nearly a million peasant farmers who, with the government's help, have moved into the cash crop economy since this former British colony of Rhodesia became independent Zimbabwe in April lflflO.

"1 have always farmed, but before independence I could only learn by finding someone else growing cotton." said Mrs. Chikaka. "That is how I learned and it took a long Saltsburg lists honor students raditionaUy, most people SALTSBURG The following students have been named to the honor roll for the third grading period at Saltsburg Junior-Senior High School. GRADE DiiUnf ulabed Honor Connie Bucco. Tracy Dunmirc, David Emanuel.

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