With the current direction of travel of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured tobacco sales, growers will end up this year having received a lower average price than they did in 1996.Read More
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Zimbabwe's 20-year wait for an increase in the average grower price for its flue-cured tobacco seems likely to become a 21-year wait by the end of this sales season. Read More
Zimbabwe’s crop volume has recovered from land reform, but plenty of challenges remain.Read More
Flue-cured tobacco growers in Zimbabwe will be hoping that the "encouraging" prices being paid for their leaf will stand up for the rest of the season.Read More
Human Rights Watch paints a grim picture of one legacy of the leaf-tobacco production-industry in Zimbabwe – exploitation.Read More
A story on Zimbabwe's flue-cured tobacco auction market amounts to an indictment against buyers and their claim that quality is rewarded.Read More
In a country where the average price paid to growers for flue-cured tobacco has hardly increased in 20 years; a story telling how growers are being exploited is hardly news.Read More
Young people in Zimbabwe are bypassing cigarettes and heading for shisha, sometimes unaware of the risks involved.Read More
At least one observer believes that a modest price increase in the average price being paid to Zimbabwe growers for their flue-cured tobacco is down to concerns that the crop might be relatively small.Read More
The average price paid to Zimbabwe’s growers for flue-cured tobacco seems to be hovering around where it was at about the same stage of the previous two seasons. Read More