Zimbabwe: Tobacco Selling Season Update, Stalk Destruction

opinion

The first 21 days of the 2016 marketing season saw 33million kg of tobacco sold at the auction floors compared to 19,635 million kg sold during the same period last season which is an increase in terms of volumes of 67.84 percent.

The thrust of the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board which is not only volumes but improvement in terms of quality seems to have been met by the seven percent increase in average price to $2.70 per kg up from $2.52 last season.

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