Some 12% of the total commercial farmland in the country was taken away from white farmers and given to black citizens by 2007.

Two-thirds of the commercial farmland is designated as "strategic crop reserve," meaning the produce stays in-country for local consumption.

The Government says it plans to acquire 20 million of the approximately 50 million acres of mostly white-controlled commercial farmland.

This has the highest proportion of commercial farmland of any Zambian province, and in those areas wildlife has been displaced.

It was approximately 12% of commercial farmland in the country, or less than 1% per year.

New Jersey law assesses property used as commercial farmland at a special low rate.

Blacks here have gained an average of just 1 percent of commercial farmland a year.

Analysts say that amounts to about 2,000 farms, or less than one-third of the commercial farmland now in white hands.

More than 9 of every 10 acres of commercial farmland remain in the hands of 50,000 white farmers.

Much of commercial farmland was under-utilised.