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The settlers in Southern Rhodesia took various measures to promote settler agriculture. These measures included:
1. The establishment of a land bank to lend money to white commercial farmers.
2. Lending money to farmers for buying agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, seeds, chemicals, and farm machinery.
3. Taxing Africans to raise the money needed to finance white settler agriculture.
4. Providing services such as advisers to advise new white farmers on how to grow tobacco, maize, and breed cattle.
5. Providing cattle dipping, marketing, and transport facilities for white commercial farmers.
6. Providing transport facilities for transporting crops, cattle, etc.
7. Making Africans living on farms pay higher rents and new dipping fees.
These measures were designed to support the growth of settler agriculture in Southern Rhodesia by providing financial support and infrastructure for white commercial farmers. However, they also had negative impacts on African communities who were forced to pay taxes and higher rents while being excluded from the benefits of settler agriculture.
Overall, the measures taken by settlers to promote settler agriculture were an important part of Southern Rhodesia's colonial history but also contributed to social and economic inequalities that persisted long after independence.
