A woman checks maize crops on a small scale farm in Chinhamora, in Zimbabwe in 2011. Farmers say finding available land to buy or lease is a notoriously timely and expensive process. — AFP
HARARE: For more than a year, Lionda Mhonda searched for a plot of land to buy in northeastern Zimbabwe, but struggled to find anything that was both affordable and came with a legitimate title deed.
Then the 33-year-old farmer found out about a new app that listed not only land that was available for sale and lease, but also vital information such as legal documentation, crop history and average soil temperatures.
