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Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers trapped in debt

Zimbabwe's tobacco industry has continued to record impressive export earnings, with revenues approaching US$1 billion in 2024. However, behind the success story, many smallholder farmers say they are sinking deeper into debt and poverty.T…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:35hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter

Tobacco producer seeks ban on public smoking

The Zimbabwean Parliament is considering a proposal to amend existing tobacco control regulations to ban smoking in high-traffic public areas, amid growing concerns over the health risks associated with passive smoking.Shamva South legisla…

Published: 25 Aug 2025 at 05:59hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's broken railways threaten lithium, tobacco exports

Zimbabwe's crumbling railway system, once the backbone of the economy, has become a major obstacle to growth, inflating transport costs, stifling exports, and threatening emerging sectors such as lithium and tobacco, economist Eddie Cross …

Published: 16 Aug 2025 at 13:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's tobacco marketing season ends

The 2025 tobacco marketing season officially came to a close yesterday, marking a historic milestone for Zimbabwe's agricultural sector as the country posted record-breaking output and earnings. While contract sales will continue, attentio…

Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 17:12hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe tobacco farmers demand indigenous tobacco policy

The government has been urged to develop an indigenous tobacco policy aimed at promoting production and supporting farmers who form the backbone of Zimbabwe's golden leaf sector.Speaking at a recent conference in Harare, Zimbabwe Progressi…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tobacco, gold dominate Zimbabwe's exports

Zimbabwe's export economy remains firmly anchored in its traditional staples of tobacco and gold, while imports are still dominated by fuel, vehicles, and machinery, according to the latest Trade and Price Statistics Report for July 2025 r…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 18:26hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe pupils learning in tobacco barns and fowl runs

A joint parliamentary committee has raised the alarm over the deplorable state of school infrastructure across Zimbabwe, revealing that some pupils are attending lessons in disused tobacco barns, fowl runs, and open spaces due to a chronic…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:37hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter

Thieves steal US$7,000 tobacco at farm

Police in Rusape have launched a manhunt for five armed robbers who attacked Riplemade Farm on Monday night and made off with 12 tobacco bales valued at US$7,039.The robbery, which occurred around 10pm, left a farm security guard injured a…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:52hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter

Chinehasha Agricultural Show - a show most people will remember for many years.

Chinehasha Agricultural Show roared into life on the 28th of June 2025. This year the show was far much bigger and better than last year with more exhibitors joining the annual event. In the Exhibition Hall were an array of quality agricul…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:35hrs | | by Tondo Thomas Murisa Chinehasha

Preparations for 2025/26 tobacco season underway

Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers have begun sowing seedbeds for the 2025/26 irrigated crop, with seed sales starting to pick up despite a slower start compared to the same period last year.According to Kutsaga Research, farmers had purchased 482…

Published: 10 Jun 2025 at 08:45hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter

Extended tobacco stalk destruction date expires

The grace period granted to tobacco farmers to clear their fields of tobacco stalks and roots ended on June 5, and the Government has now intensified monitoring efforts to enforce compliance, with defaulters facing fines and other penaltie…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:40hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe tobacco sales reach 88% of national target

A notable shift in Zimbabwe's tobacco marketing landscape is unfolding, with auction prices surpassing contract prices for 24 consecutive days, signaling potential cracks in the long-dominant contract farming model.Data released by the Tob…

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 09:42hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe tobacco sales hit US$800 million

Zimbabwe's tobacco earnings have soared to over US$800 million since the start of the 2025 marketing season in March, reflecting a strong rebound in output and continued global demand for the golden leaf.According to the latest figures rel…

Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:48hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter

Changaz hosts Macheso and Chipanga

Centenary businessman Zacharia "Changaz" Five is hosting King of Sungura Alick Macheso and Hosia Chipanga on Friday.The much-anticipated show is expected to be filled with tobacco farmers and artisanal miners who missed the duo for a year.…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 19:59hrs | 466 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Tobacco farming expands to Matebeleland South

Zimbabwe's tobacco sector is seeing renewed growth in previously untapped regions, with Matebeleland South emerging as a promising new frontier for the country's second-largest foreign currency earner. In Marula, Mangwe District, 122 small…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:09hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter

Tobacco sales rake in US$279m

Zimbabwean tobacco farmers have earned US$279 million from the sale of 81.3 million kilogrammes of flue-cured tobacco so far this season, as the industry intensifies efforts to locally process at least 30 percent of the crop to boost earni…

Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:36hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in third quarter

ZIMBABWE will hold the first Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo in the third quarter of this year to promote the country's tobacco, the country's industry regulatory body, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB), announced Friday.The expo…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:35hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter

Shun Sidemarketing, tobacco farmers warned

Contracted tobacco farmers have been warned to shun side marketing by senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa while urging them to fulfill their contractual obligations and deliver all their crops to the merchant who contracted them and avoid con…

Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 12:16hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Zimbabwe farmers push for localisation of tobacco beneficiation

The Tobacco Farmers Union Trust (TFUT) is calling for the localisation of tobacco beneficiation to help mitigate losses caused by adverse weather conditions and soaring production costs in Zimbabwe's lucrative tobacco sector. The appeal fo…

Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 07:09hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter

Side-marketing a big threat to tobacco contracting companies

With tobacco auction floors opening this week senior agronomist Lazarus  Gatawa has urged all tobacco farmers who are contracted to honor their contractual obligations and deliver all their crop to the merchant who contracted them and…

Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:10hrs | 23 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Minerals, tobacco dominate Zimbabwe's export list

In the third quarter of the year, Zimbabwe's export landscape continued to be dominated by raw minerals and tobacco, as outlined in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) third-quarter report.According to the central bank's report, gold emer…

Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 15:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat

SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates involving high-profile politicians and…

Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Huge progress as tobacco sales hit over US$800m

Over 270 million kg of tobacco worth US$817 million have been sold at the auction and contract floors since the beginning of the marketing season in March, with a lot of money flowing into the tobacco farming areas.This year farmers had a …

Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Tobacco sales rake in US$650,3 million

ZIMBABWE has realised US$650,3 million from tobacco sales this year, up 10,3% compared to last year, statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) show.Last year, the southern African country earned US$589,6 million from …

Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Taming inflation is an arduous task

The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) pointed that year on year (annual) inflation rate marginally increased to 51.55% in September 2021 from 50.24% in August 2021 after 8 months of straight decline from 363% recorded in Januar…

Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 09:13hrs | 11 | by Victor Bhoroma

Land Audit: A true test of national empathy

The ongoing land audit breathes a new ray of hope to landless masses who hope to chance their first immovable property in a landmass collectively owned by all daughters and sons of the soil, Zimbabwe. The setting up and operationalization …

Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 12:55hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa

Zimbabwe should start embracing agrobusiness as priority of turning around the economy

Agriculture have to be in the centre stage in plans for the revival of Zimbabwe's ailing economy. Getting agriculture moving in Zimbabwe is a big task. The radical land reform of 2000 has left many outstanding challenges; not least the imp…

Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 14:02hrs | 5 | by Enos Denhere

Mnangagwa capable of steering Zimbabwe's economy from the doldrums

The Zimbabwean economy is anchored on agriculture and mining which brings in the much needed foreign currency in order to revive industries, push production up and improve the people's livelihoods. This and the achievement of a middle inco…

Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 14:54hrs | | by Elijah Chihota

Zimbabwe reaps from Mugabe

The 2000 land reform program will forever be remembered as the fatal blow that brought Zimbabwe to its knees as a result of its repercussions which were politically, economically and socially catastrophic. Although the initiative was to se…

Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 15:22hrs | | by Daniel Itai

'Stop smoking' plea as habit kills 50,000 South Africans every year

Smoking kills more than 50,000 people in South Africa each year, about a third of them before the age of 60, it was revealed on Tuesday as health experts and anti-smoking campaigners (Madiba Youth Organisation)  urged people to give u…

Published: 30 May 2017 at 22:40hrs | 2 | by Agencies

Decentralisation of tobacco auction floors noble

Growing tobacco has been the boon for the Zimbabwe's economy and its farmers. The golden leaf is truly one of the country's major foreign currency earner generating an average of 800 million dollars annually. Each year the tobacco industry…

Published: 23 May 2017 at 12:45hrs | 5 | by Tendai Guta

Farmers party in nite clubs leaving wives to sleep in bank queues over night

Many Tobacco farmers in Mvurwi, Mash-Central who are spending nights in bank queues are opting to leave their women standing in queues while they party in night clubs.The farmers who are getting maximum withdrawal limit of $100 to $150 pre…

Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Tobacco farmers must go green

Growing tobacco has been the boon for the Zimbabwe's economy and its farmers. The golden leaf is truly one of the country's major foreign currency earner generating an average of 800 million dollars annually. However, both the Government a…

Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta

Tobacco farmers should insure their crop

Due to the possibility of fire and natural disasters, agriculture can be a risky enterprise, making it imperative for the farmer to have insurance covers to hedge themselves against total loss.Ironically, levels of insurance in the farming…

Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 14:35hrs | 2 | by Tendai Guta

Farmers expect Chinamasa to scrap the tobacco levy

Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union president Wonder Chabikwa said they expected Chinamasa to scrap the 1,5% tobacco levy, which he said was suffocating farmers.He said the budget must support agriculture to help in the revival of the econo…

Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

The untold story of tobacco farming

Granaries were a common feature of every household in Zimunya area, south of the city of Mutare, in Manicaland province but these once vital structures have long vanished making way for crudely built tobacco barns as farmers abandon maize …

Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani

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