Azerbaijan is looking to cut its annual bill for importing cigarettes by growing more leaf tobacco and increasing its manufacturing capability. Read More
Some people in Russia are said to be smoking tobacco grown in their own gardens. Growing tobacco is relatively easy, but growing tobacco and processing it into a smokable product is more difficult.Read More
While the government of Tanzania and potential buyers haggle over the price that should be paid for 'excess tobacco', it is the farmers who are suffering.Read More
What is claimed to be the only heat-not-burn product on the US market uses patented technology to heat ‘liquefied tobacco from organic tobacco leaves’.Read More
British American Tobacco, which has been working with tobacco farmers for more than a century, said today it is working to enable prosperous livelihoods for its leaf-supplier farmers.Read More
One question that seems not to have been asked as part of a discussion about tobacco-industry funding of efforts to eliminate child labor in tobacco production concerns why the funding is so modest.Read More
Burley production was down in Africa partly due to the ‘low grower prices’ paid during the previous season when there was ‘excess production’.Read More
All of JTI Leaf Malawi’s tobacco growers have been able to pay off their financing loans taken out in support of the 2016-17 production season. Read More
The ITGA worries about slumping demand for leaf tobacco and a lack of alternative cropsRead More
Alliance One International’s volume sales of leaf tobacco increased by 2.1 percent during the six months to the end of September, while the value of those sales was up by 11.3 percent.Read More
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