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
The Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation has reacted with indignation to allegations that its work ‘aims to keep farmers dependent on aid from the tobacco industry…’Read More
Tobacco farmers in Indonesia are calling for protection from imports. Why wouldn’t they? What has globalization done for them?Read More
Japan's tobacco growers are due next year to be paid a per-kg price for leaf that will be about one percent lower than the price they were paid in 2014.Read More
Candace C. Formacek, vice president and treasurer of Universal Corporation, will host a second-quarter-results conference-call on November 7.Read More
Grower registrations for Zimbabwe’s 2017/18 flue-cured tobacco season are up sharply on those of the 2016/17 season.Read More
Some of Turkey’s tobacco growers, along with other farmers, are unhappy at some of the government’s agricultural policies.Read More
