Harare - Pro-government militants occupying white-owned farms in Zimbabwe are disrupting work as the new planting season gets under way, the Commercial Farmers Union warned yesterday.
The farmers' organisation, which represents 4,500 mainly white farmers, said the militants, who have illegally occupied more than 1,000 farms since February 2000, were in some cases slashing crops.
"The status quo regarding lack of planting remains the same.
"Work stoppages, displacements of farm workers and extortion continue to occur," the farmers' organisation said in its latest update on the situation.