[Fwd: African farmers must have chemicals]

[EWerb at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/3/99 9:58:48 AM, pracko at earthlink.net writes:

<< "Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe will not be able to make the transition =
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subsistence to commerical farming without modern agricultural inputs.=20
International farm input supply companies such as Monsanto, American=20
Cyanamid, Cargill, Novartis, and Pioneer are active in Zimbabwe. Many see=
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market potential in the small scale farming sector, but the distribution=20
network to get agricultural inputs form the supplier to smallholder farme=
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is inadequate."=20
 >>

hey paul

i got lots of line feed artifacts with the article

hard to read like that

wonder if others may have too

fixes? do you send your self a copy?

just got back from bioneers and a week up thru sonoma and mendo eco scenes

it was very fun 

ew