The local media quoted the veteran leader, who spearheaded controversial agrarian reforms in the last decade, as telling a world food summit in Italy that Western governments opposed to his rule were sabotaging agriculture in Zimbabwe.
The country has suffered frequent food shortages in the last few years, widely blamed on Mugabe's controversial agrarian reforms.
Two years ago, more than four million Zimbabweans survived on donor food hand-outs from international agencies such as the World Food Programme.
But Mugabe told the Rome food summit that a combination of Western subsidies on farmers and sanctions had crippled agriculture in Zimbabwe.
"This (sanctions) has had a negative impact on our farmers who, according to our neo-colonial enemies, must fail so as to damn the rain-fed agriculture," he said.
"Add to this denial of market access to agricultural products from developing countries that completes the host of factors which undermine crop production in our countries," he added.
Harare - 18/11/2009
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