Some 85% of the tobacco is produced by smallholder farmers, 60% of whom are beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme, said Muswere, “demonstrating that government policies in the agriculture sector ...

Around 60,000 hectares of forests are burnt every year to cure tobacco, as farmers lack the space to grow their own trees. Dressed in a thick brown jacket and wearing a traditional blue headwrap ...

Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka said ... more of their usual earnings," said George Seremwe, president of the Zimbabwe Tobacco Growers Association, which represents Black small-scale farmers.

Harare - Fifteen years after Zimbabwe's agriculture sector collapsed in the face of President Robert Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, its tobacco industry is again booming, with black farmers ...

TOBACCO sales are now 36 million kilogrammes shy of the national target of 300 million kilogrammes, the Tobacco Industry and ...

but now it comes with a $20 Digital Costco Shop Card FILE - A woman works in a tobacco field at a farm on the outskirt of Harare, Saturday, April, 9, 2022. Zimbabwe has reported record tobacco ...

Zimbabwe is witnessing a new wave of young Black farmers taking up tobacco farming, one of its biggest cash crop. It constituted about 12% of the southern African country's total exports in ...

Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry is dominated by smallholder ... SYM officer Sipho Mpofu called on farm owners to abide by the country’s laws that protect children. “Children are often exploited ...

China buys most of Zimbabwe’s tobacco to feed its huge market ... “demonstrating that government policies in the agriculture sector are sound and continue to bear fruit,” Muswere said.

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 ...