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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 ...
The structure of the industry has been completely overturned. 1,500 large-scale tobacco farmers grew 97% of the crop in 2000, but 110,000 small-scale tobacco farmers grew 65% of the crop in 2013. [18] The white farmers had sold most of their tobacco at auction, but 80% of Zimbabwe's tobacco crop was grown under contract in 2016. [19]
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 ...
[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]
Pacific Cigarette Company (formerly Savanna Tobacco) is a tobacco processing and cigarette manufacturing company, founded in 2002 by Adam Molai. It is the first cigarette manufacturer to be founded by a black African in Zimbabwe. Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC) is the manufacturer of Pacific, Branson, and Pegasus cigarette products.
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 ...
In 2001, Zimbabwe was the world's sixth-largest producer of tobacco, behind only China, Brazil, India, the United States and Indonesia. [73] By 2008, tobacco production had collapsed to 48 million kg, just 21% of the amount grown in 2000 and smaller than the crop grown in 1950. [74] [75]: 189
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