A cigarette manufacturer in the Philippines is looking to expand tobacco production on the Philippines’ island of Mindanao, where growing conditions are said to be most favourable.Read More
The provincial government of Ontario, Canada, says it is following the law in fining tobacco growers for over-planting, but there is a suggestion that planting rules lack clarity.Read More
Using paddy husk to generate the heat necessary to cure tobacco is environment friendly, but now a Sri Lankan inventor has refined the system to make it more efficient.Read More
The prospects for tobacco farmers in Cambodia have been given a lift by a trade agreement that allows for the annual duty-free import by Vietnam of 3,000 tons of unmanufactured Cambodian tobacco.Read More
Demand for classical oriental tobacco remains remarkably stable.Read More
The number of farmers who have registered to grow tobacco in Zimbabwe this season has increased by more than 14 percent on that of last season, and plantings are up by about 17.5 percent.Read More
Despite greater volumes, tobacco farmers in Malawi earned 18 percent less from their tobacco than they did last year. Read More
The number of farmers who have registered to grow tobacco in Zimbabwe has increased by almost 15 percent this season, and the area planted to tobacco has risen by more than 11 percent.Read More
A number of farmers in Kentucky are starting to plant hemp instead of tobacco because hemp is ‘taking off’ while the tobacco market is ‘flailing’. Read More
The tenancy labor system in Malawi has come under attack during a workshop called to discuss whether it should be regulated or abolished in respect of tobacco production.Read More
