Flue-cured production is set to rise and Burley production is set to fall during the next 12 months, according to Universal Corporation, which issued its annual results yesterday. Read More
Cambodian tobacco growers were expecting their incomes to rise on the back of a duty-free trade deal with Vietnam, but they now suspect that any additional profit is not reaching them.Read More
The government of Malawi has said that it will continue with tobacco-industry reforms in order to create a win-win situation for buyers and farmers.Read More
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
The general manager of a local cigarette manufacturer in Zambia has said that the government should discourage the export of tobacco without value addition.Read More
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
