A financial incentive scheme in Zimbabwe is behind a big increase in farmers registering to grow flue-cured tobacco in 2018-19.Read More
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Zimbabwe is rightly celebrating growing a record flue-cured tobacco crop, but it needs to get to grips with sorting out a consequent deforestation crisis.Read More
Zimbabwe's leaf tobacco growers are being advised on managing the pests that can ultimately affect what they earn. Read More
As with many of the questions raised in respect of tobacco cultivation, that posed below about tobacco poisoning should be answered in part by demanding that growers are paid more.Read More
Oh, for a time machine! If Zimbabwe's growers could have gone back to 1996, they could have sold their tobacco for more than they were paid for it in 2018.Read More
If Zimbabwe's leaf growers are stakeholders in the tobacco industry, their earnings suggest that they must comprise a splinter group.Read More
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
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