The comparison below stems from the fact that the UK has three official comparators: the double-decker bus (confusingly, for length), the football pitch (area) and Wales (everything else).Read More
Malawi's 2018 tobacco marketing season has been described as 'good'. But good for whom? A Reuters story said that grower prices had been reduced by 16.5 percent from those of 2017.Read More
The latest reports from Zimbabwe seem to leave up in the air the question of whether tobacco growers are happy with payment arrangements for the 2019 marketing season.Read More
A story about a row over the volume of leaf tobacco purchases in Zambia this year and the imposition of a sales levy has provoked the Tobacco Board of Zambia to issue a rebuttal. Read More
Zimbabwe is trying to negotiate the tricky question of how to pay tobacco growers so that the country can earn the maximum net foreign currency from this vital crop.Read More
With buyers having reduced tobacco farm-gate prices in Malawi by 54 percent between 2012 and 2016, talk of rewarding farmers for their hard work seems hollow at best. Read More
Two tobacco buying companies are challenging leaf-purchase levies that they say were imposed retroactively.Read More
Some might say that growing tobacco at a hospital raises no additional problems to those caused by growing it elsewhere. A cynic might say it was a way of increasing business.Read More
In a country such as the Philippines, which has traditionally grown a lot of tobacco, price hikes on tobacco products are a two-edged sword.Read More
In announcing its results to the end of December, Universal Corporation said it was reducing its operations in Tanzania as demand for the country's tobacco had waned.Read More
