Zimbabwe 再開するs produce markets after 抗議するs by 干ばつ-攻撃する,衝突する 農業者s

By Farai Shawn Matiashe

MUTARE, Zimbabwe, April 8 (Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎) - Zimbabwe has 再開するd fresh produce markets after 圧力 from 農業者s who struggled to sell their 収穫 under 制限s 目的(とする)d at stemming spread of the novel coronavirus, Zimbabwean 公式の/役人s said.

Markets 含むing 目だつ Mbare Musika in Harare and Sakubva Musika in Mutare were の近くにd last week when 大統領 Emmerson Mnangagwa's 行政 put the country on a 21-day lockdown in a 企て,努力,提案 to 抑制(する) the spread of the ウイルス.

Zimbabwe has so far 記録,記録的な/記録するd just over 10 確認するd 事例/患者s of the novel coronavirus and three deaths. Its larger 隣人 South Africa has seen more than 1,800 確認するd 事例/患者s and more than 15 deaths.

To を取り引きする the 脅し, Zimbabwe has moved to 停止(させる) many forms of 輸送(する) and の近くに 施設s except for those みなすd 必須の, 含むing supermarkets and 明言する/公表する-owned public 輸送(する).

Under the new 制限s, 法律 施行 スパイ/執行官s at first 妨げるd 農業者s from selling their produce either at markets or on city streets. Those 試みる/企てるing sales in some 事例/患者 saw their goods 押収するd.

At Sakubva Musika market last week, police and Mutare city health 公式の/役人s 押収するd tonnes of vegetables and fruit from more than 300 famers who had converged in the market area.

"The lockdown has 始める,決める me 支援する. My tomatoes are perishable, so I lost many at the farm 予定 to that 制限 of movement," said Cuthbert Chuma, a small-規模 農業者 from a village in Macheke 地区, about 110 km from the 資本/首都 Harare.

DROUGHT PRESSURE

Many of Zimbabwe's 農業者s have already been 攻撃する,衝突する by 長引かせるd 干ばつ linked to 気候 change, and the market 終結s have come as an 付加 財政上の blow.

Paul Zakariya, an (n)役員/(a)執行力のある director of the Zimbabwe Famers Union, told the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎 that his organisation had ロビーd to see the markets 再開するd "to 会合,会う the 需要・要求するs of food even durin g the lockdown period."

Nick Mangwana, an (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) 省 永久の 長官, said the 大統領,/社長 had 免除されたd 農業者s from the 初期の lockdown, but the 決定/判定勝ち(する) had not been 器具/実施するd by police.

He said the 政府 could not 危険 people going hungry during the lockdown.

"Of course we have supermarkets but the 政府 took into consideration that not everyone can afford to go there. Most people get vegetables and fruits from these 仲買人s," Mangwana said in a telephone interview.

But there are worries that 再開するing markets could 始める,決める 支援する 成果/努力s to 含む/封じ込める the ウイルス as shoppers gather.

Zakariya said he believed such 恐れるs could be 演説(する)/住所d through 成果/努力s to 確実にする social distancing の中で shoppers and 委任統治(領)ing the use of 直面する masks.

City of Harare 広報担当者 Michael Chideme told the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎 that police had been (軍隊を)展開する,配備するd to the markets to 持続する social distancing, and that from Thursday Harare markets would be open for just three hours a day.

Spren Mutiwi, a Mutare city 広報担当者, said markets that 再開するd Wednesday had seen some problem in 持続するing social distance but 当局 were working with the 仲買人s to try to 保護する both 販売人s and shoppers.

(報告(する)/憶測ing by Farai Shawn Matiashe ; editing by Laurie Goering : (Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立/基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters. Visit http://news.信用.org/気候)

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