Farmer Simon Kahari recently sold tobacco worth more than $6,000 at an auction in Zimbabwe, a small fortune reflecting the golden leaf's resurgence in this southern African country.

Farm workers harvest tobacco leaves at a farm ahead of the tobacco selling season in Harare March 3, 2015. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo By Jeffrey Moyo MUTOKO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Dressed in a thick brown jacket and wearing a traditional blue headwrap, 54-year-old Spiwe Juru sits on the floor sifting through tobacco leaves at her farm in Nyazura, in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland ...

Noisy trolleys roll bales of tobacco on and off the auction floors in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital. Here they call it "green gold." Some of the country's… ...

Tobacco Is Smokin' Again In Zimbabwe : ... Tobacco is much better, because I manage to do all my budgets on my farm, we manage to pay school fees, labor, get food and other things." ...

Zimbabwe’s new farmers are growing massive amounts of tobacco, mainly on formerly white-owned farms, and some of them are earning more than they ever dreamed possible.

A farmworker rests while harvesting tobacco at Dormervale farm, east of Harare, Zimbabwe, on November 28, 2017. (Reuters / Siphiwe Sibeko) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of ...

Zimbabwe's tobacco crop will fall to 190 million kilograms this year, down from 216 million kilograms in 2014, an official said on Wednesday, as late planting and heavy rains hit production of the ...

Tobacco production is booming in Zimbabwe as small farmers attempt to cash in on high prices worldwide. Skip to main content. ... He has 60 labourers and their families living on the farm.

However, it is estimated that before Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, implemented the last 10 years of land reform programs, most of Zimbabwe’s tobacco crop (which in 1998 registered at a ...

In a largely male-dominated sector, Michelle Gwatimba, 36, who runs this small farm 200 kms (124 miles) north of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, is not only blazing a trail for women but also provides ...