Page "Economy of Zimbabwe" Paragraph 10

Industrialized farming was once the backbone of the domestic Zimbabwean economy and contributed up to 40 % of the exported produce.

The result of large scale eviction of competent commercial white farmers, the government's land reform efforts and the severing of economic ties with Mozambique, means that was longer the case.

However, by 2012 tobacco production, Zimbabwe's top cash crop, had partially recovered with the income being divided between thousands of Black farmers rather than hundreds of white farmers.