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Workers, employed by black Zimbabwean smallholder commercial farmer Alex Machemedze, plough a field in the Trelawney district, 150 km north of Harare, Friday April 28, 2000. Machemedze is a graduate of the agricultural programme run by the Farmers Development Trust which facilitates the development of peasant farmers, mature school leavers and emergent smallholder commercial farmers, some of whom can ultimately attain the the status of fully fledged large scale commercial farmers. Since Machemedze graduated in 1996, he has bought 4 oxen, 1 bull, a tractor and two houses as well as various farm implements from the profits of his 10 hectare farm. (AP Photo/Christine Nesbitt)