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LOCAL tobacco farmers have blamed contractor companies for inflating production costs, resulting in producers realising low earnings from the cash crop and defaulting on loan repayments....
ZIMBABWE Tobacco Industrial Workers’ Union (ZTIWU) has formally written to Finance minister Mthuli Ncube pleading for an increase of the tax-free threshold of their salaries, saying...
TOBACCO contract sales have pushed up the total bales sold to 1 239 213 bales on 20 April 2023, a 16.78% increase from the 1 061...
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation targeting 25 tobacco merchants, including global giants British American Tobacco and Tian Ze Tobacco Company, a subsidiary...
ELLEN FUNGISAI CHIPANGO ZIMBABWE is the largest tobacco producer in Africa and in 2018 the crop accounted for about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. Zimbabwe’s hopes to become...
THE Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) says demand for Zimbabwe’s flavoured tobacco remains very high but poor and inconsistent monetary policies are hurting the local industry and...
A KAROI-BASED farmer, Tawanda Mufudze (pictured), was last week evicted from Avalon Farm, forcing him to abandon 15 hectares of tobacco, maize field and livestock, The...
UNDERSTATED payslips or non-fulfilled bank transfers have become the sad face of dissatisfaction among exploited contract tobacco workers in a lucrative industry that generates over US$500...
THE Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) says the tobacco industry regulator should lobby for regulations compelling all merchants to purchase a certain percentage of their tobacco...
IN a bid to understand how Zimbabwean-based Chinese tobacco giant Tian Ze, a subsidiary of China Tobacco International Inc, controlled by the state-owned China National Tobacco...
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