A government-funded audit in Zimbabwe revealed serious irregularities in the redistribution of land seized from white commercial farmers in 2000 and distributed among indigenous people, some of whom do not even know how to care for production farms.

According to the state-controlled Sunday Mail, a national audit of agricultural land was conducted in 10 districts of the country and in 10 provinces from October to November last year.

An audit, covering only 6 percent of the target land, also showed that some farmers rented their farms to other farmers without government approval.

Tendai Bare, chairman of the Zimbabian Zimbabwean commission responsible for the audit process, which involved more than 18,000 farmers, told the newspaper that fraudulent land distribution and other gross violations led to a decline in agricultural production in the country.

As a result, the commission recommended a thorough cleaning to ensure that the land is used appropriately, and not as it is now.Today, thousands of farmers cannot cultivate land due to lack of financial resources, poor planning and ownership of several farms, which has led to random cultivation of land, inadequate accounting, hiring of unskilled managers, etc.