India has managed to convert 15 percent of the land previously under tobacco to other crops, including pulses and vegetables.Read More
Oh, for a time machine! If Zimbabwe's growers could have gone back to 1996, they could have sold their tobacco for more than they were paid for it in 2018.Read More
Using child labor on tobacco farms is an abomination, but there is almost certainly a simple solution: pay growers much higher prices for their leaf. The industry can afford to do so.Read More
Over-production of tobacco can be a problem, but there is almost certainly a simple solution: pay growers much higher prices for their contracted leaf. The industry can afford to do so.Read More
If Zimbabwe's leaf growers are stakeholders in the tobacco industry, their earnings suggest that they must comprise a splinter group.Read More
22nd Century has upped the ante on a plan to lower nicotine deliveries from US cigarettes by describing it as the most important public health initiative of the past 100 years.Read More
With the opportunities for increasing the production of classical oriental tobacco limited, this could be an interesting time for China to make a major entry onto the market for this type.Read More
Slow sales and tumbling prices are the rewards on offer for the tobacco-industry stakeholders who comprise the leaf growers of Andhra Pradesh, India.Read More
The idea seems to be that Sri Lanka will effectively ban the use of tobacco products by banning in 2020 tobacco growing along with the importation of cigarettes and tobacco.Read More
Small-scale tobacco growers in Kenya are apparently not sharing in the huge profits made by the industry, which seems to mean that they are not stakeholders, despite what is said. Read More
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