The sugar crops and coconut trees were especially hit hard.
Here, black cotton soil gives large production of sugar crops.
So it's worth Castro's trouble to do as much damage as possible to rival sugar crops.
To get fuel from the local refinery, the village barters its sugar crop for oil.
Damage was lighter than first feared, but the sugar crop suffered substantial losses.
One immediate fear is the future of the sugar crop, about a month away from harvesting.
The 1990 sugar crop was again depressed, reaching only 69,300 tonnes.
In the Parish, 45 people drowned, and there was heavy damage to the sugar crops.
Zimbabwe's sugar crop is ordinarily about 450,000 tons a year, half of it for export.
Sugarcane accounted for about 83 percent of total output of sugar crops in 1985.