Farm For Sale In Masvingo

Masvingo, Masvingo Province

$700,000

Masvingo, Masvingo Province

200 Hectares (~2,000,000 m²)

Description

We are pleased to offer this well established farm for sale in the heart of Masvingo farming community. A real rare find in Masvingo, this farm offers a good opportunity for a descening farmer. Spanning over an expansive beautiful land of 200 hectares in extent, this farm presents an opportunity to farmers with diverse farming interests as it is well suitable for various farming activities. From cereal crops to horticultural crops and even animal husbandry, this piece of land will take all. It has a mixture of deep brown and red soils as well as a small portion with sandy loamy soils with breathtaking expanse of natural beauty. The farm is however, predominantly brown and red soils spread over a flat and arable ground. More than 70% is currently arable and ready for tillage but most of the remainder can also be cleared arable. And to water. The farm lays around the boundary of natural regions 111 and 1V with between 450mm and 850mm rainfall per season on paper. However, it is tucked on a landscape stretching between Glen Livet and Bikita physically with so much rainfall that it has been nick named "THE SWEET VALLEY". To augment water supply, there are 8 boreholes on the farm , 6 very prolific but 5 connected. Currently the connected boreholes are connected to 30000 litre PvC overhead water tanks plus a 100000litre ground water tank. Additionally, there is a 1million liter water tank but not yet connected to the boreholes. The 130 000 litre water tanks are currently connected to a fully functional drip irrigation system covering 5 hectares. For the comfort of the owner/farm manager, there is a 4 bedroomed farm house with mes, lounge seperate kitchen all well electrified. Ceramic tiles flooring. There is an electrified 8 roomed staff accommodation, a 3 roomed office block with storage shed, 3000 bird capicity fowl run, cattle and goats handling facilities, feeding troughs, an orchard, a gum plantation and 5 paddocks. The farm is powered by a 50kvA electricity transformer.