Tobacco farmers in the Philippines are being urged to sign up to the national government’s contract growing system so as to free themselves from the ‘abusive practices of middlemen’.Read More
Azerbaijan is simultaneously clamping down on tobacco smoking at home while promoting exports of its leaf tobacco.Read More
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Flue-cured tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh have so far this season received good average prices for their leaf, which is part of a short crop.Read More
After 36 days of sales over Zimbabwe’s contract and auction floors, farmer prices for flue-cured tobacco were down two percent on those of 2016.Read More
Vice president and treasurer Candace C. Formacek will host Universal Corporation’s webcast of its results conference call.Read More
The US-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee says that not enough is being done to address the ‘numerous reports detailing human rights abuses’ on British American Tobacco’s contract farms.Read More
Zimbabwe’ s flue-cured tobacco growers have been paid an average of US$2.76 per kg for the 70 million kg that they have so far delivered to market.Read More
Another major illicit tobacco crop has been destroyed in Australia, where soaring cigarette prices are enticing criminals into commercial-scale growing. Read More
In Australia, where tobacco production is illegal, the soaring prices of cigarettes is encouraging some criminals to start growing the crop on a commercial scale.Read More
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