61.   With roadblocks continuing, the government plans Thursday to approve a program to restructure the agriculture sector this year without consultations with farming leaders.

62.   With talks stalled, the government was planning Thursday to approve a program to restructure the agriculture sector this year without consultations with farming leaders.

63.   Zimbabwe is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, and the land crisis has crippled the crucial agriculture sector.

64.   Habito said there were signs that the usually laggard agriculture sector would finally catch up next year.

65.   He said the agriculture sector was expected to grow by three percent year-on-year, industry by four percent and services by seven percent.

66.   Agriculture sector will be geared up to bring at least one million virgin land into cultivation.

67.   But Jakhar said unfavourable terms of trade for the agriculture sector had failed to expand the capital base of the farm sector.

68.   But it said the focus would be on the neglected agriculture sector and creating more investment in the state-run insurance which would be strengthened but not privatised.

69.   China on Thursday appealed for more foreign investment in its agriculture sector, where it faces problems which are slowing down economic development and threatening national unity.

70.   The reforms by the socialist government have dramatically increased taxes on small businesses and the agriculture sector.