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Zimbabwe is regional leader in tobacco processing

Cut Rag Processors has completed a multi-million-dollar expansion that positions the Harare-based company as Africa's largest tobacco processing operation, a development expected to accelerate Zimbabwe's push toward value addition in the t…

Published: 22 Nov 2025 at 13:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe seeks to boost tobacco value addition

ZIMBABWE, one of Africa's largest tobacco producers, aims to leverage its booming trade with China to increase tobacco production and promote value addition, a senior government official has said.Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, …

Published: 20 Oct 2025 at 07:17hrs | | 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 jo

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 17:35hrs | | by Tondo Thomas Murisa Chinehasha

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 obligation

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

US$15 for five bales of tobacco, a smallholder tobacco farmer's tale

Smallholder tobacco farmers are reeling under the yoke of high-interest loans, amid shocking revelations one of the farmers received a pay-out of US$15 after se

Published: 27 Mar 2024 at 08:49hrs | | by Erick Matotoba

Side-marketing a big threat to tobacco contracting companies

With tobacco auction floors opening this week senior agronomist Lazarus &nbsp;Gatawa has urged all tobacco farmers who are contracted to honor their contractual

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

Zimbabwe tobacco auction floors open in March

The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has said auction floors are set to open next month encouraging tobacco stakeholders to fully utilise the TIMB bo

Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tobacco Stakeholders urged to come up with a pension scheme

Agronomy expert Lazarus Gatawa has urged stakeholders in the tobacco industry to consider putting in place a special pension scheme for tobacco farmers.Gatawa,

Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:01hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Zimbabwe tobacco exports rake in US$1 billion

ZIMBABWE'S tobacco export earnings have increased by 43% to US$1,09 billion this year from US$766,6 million last season as the golden leaf retains its lustre, l

Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tobacco farmers urged to do reaping, curing processes correctly to ensure good leaf quality

Small-scale tobacco growers are being urged to take heed and cure the remaining crop properly to boost the quality factor and fetch higher average prices.Senior

Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 15:03hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

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 08:13hrs | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 13:54hrs | | 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 14:22hrs | | 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 21:40hrs | | 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 11:45hrs | | by Tendai Guta

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 | | 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 | | by Tendai Guta

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 07:10hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani

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