Flue-cured seed sales up in Zimbabwe

Tobacco seed sales for Zimbabwe’s 2014–2015 flue-cured season, at 827,010 g, were up by almost 6 percent on those at the same stage of preparation for the 2013–2014 crop, 781,135 g, according to a story in The Herald quoting the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board’s latest bulletin.

Planting of the country’s irrigated tobacco is due to start Sept. 1, while the rain-fed crop will be planted from October to early December.