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Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a ...
Zimbabwe has reported record tobacco sales as the southern African nation reestablishes itself as one of the leading growers in the world, and yet the small-scale Black farmers now selling their ...
Zimbabwe is the largest grower of tobacco in Africa, and the 4th largest grower in the world. Three types of tobacco have traditionally been grown in the country: Virginia flue-cured, burley and oriental tobacco. Over 95% of Zimbabwe’s tobacco consists of flue-cured tobacco, which is renowned for its flavor. [1]
The main export market is China, which purchased 54% of Zimbabwe's tobacco exports in 2015. [7] Since land reform began in 2000, most of the white-owned commercial tobacco farms have been seized by the government and redistributed to small-scale black farmers. Production of tobacco was disrupted, and the harvest declined by 79% between 2000 and ...
A report by the Tobacco Institute of South Africa (which receives funds from BAT) found that PCC products comprise about 10% of the illegal cigarette market in South Africa. [ 30 ] [ 24 ] However, a more recent study by the University of Cape Town estimated that the company holds between 1-4% of the market share in South Africa and that about ...
[46] [47] By 2018, tobacco production had recovered to 258 million kg, the second largest crop on record. [44] [48] Instead of large white-owned farms selling mostly to European and American companies, Zimbabwe's tobacco sector now consists of small black-owned farms exporting over half of the crop to China. [49]
Whereas Zimbabwe was the world's sixth-largest producer of tobacco in 2001, [69] in 2005 it produced less than a third the amount produced in 2000. [ 70 ] Zimbabwe was once so rich in agricultural produce that it was dubbed the "bread basket" of Southern Africa, while it is now struggling to feed its own population. [ 71 ]
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