Tanzania: Breed Nicotin Free Tobacco Or the Crop Has No Future Says Minister of Agriculture Keenja

LOCAL researchers should collaborate with their foreign colleagues and come out with less hazardous tobacco breeds, the minister for Agriculture and Food Security, Charles Keenja, suggests.

Short of that, he cautions, the crop has no future globally. Through the Tobacco Research of Tanzania centre in Urambo, Tanzanian experts need to search for a breed which has no or little amount of nicotin, he said.

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