With production expected to come in 14 percent under demand, tobacco is predicted to attract high prices in Malawi.Read More
The average price paid to Zimbabwe’s growers for flue-cured tobacco during the first day of sales was less than one percent up on that of the opening-day price of the 2017 selling season.Read More
As Zimbabwe's tobacco auctions open this week, growers are said to be upbeat, but the reality is that prices have hardly increased during the past 20 years – though they have fluctuated.Read More
No individual government can stop people from smoking by banning the growing of tobacco. A government can stop people from smoking only by banning smoking.Read More
According to tobacco-control activists, farmers in one region of Tanzania are turning to other crops that, for the time being at least, are proving to be more rewarding.Read More
An international anti-tobacco group is asking governments to develop plans by 2021 for phasing out the sale of tobacco products, a request that seems, in the light of what the tobacco industry is doing, to lack Read More
Growers in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were said to have been optimistic as flue-cured tobacco auctions started on March 8.Read More
Zimbabwe's flue-cured-tobacco growers harvest a raw deal given that they help underpin the country's economy and some of the huge profits made by tobacco manufacturers.Read More
A drop in tobacco plantings in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh is being put down to an awakening by farmers to the health implications of what they were doing.Read More
Although it is illegal to grow tobacco in Australia now, the country has a history of tobacco production and some widely dispersed areas where it is known that this crop will grow.Read More
