Let’s reimagine the tobacco value chain

Zimbabwe is the largest tobacco producer in Africa and the fourth globally

THE government’s swift acknowledgement of growers’ frustrations over subdued tobacco auction prices is both welcome and worth noting. For a crop that remains Zimbabwe’s largest agricultural export earner, sustaining hundreds of thousands of rural households, weak prices strike at the heart of livelihoods, confidence and broader economic stability. Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka deserves credit for…

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