Malawi Plans Increased Surveillance to Curb Tobacco Smuggling

(Bloomberg) Malawi, the world’s largest producer of burley tobacco, will step up surveillance at its borders to curb smuggling of as much as a third of the country’s crop every year, the industry regulator said. ... Malawi, a nation of 15 million people that the United Nations ranks as one of the world’s least developed, relies on tobacco to generate 60 percent of its export earnings. Continued

Image: "Cutting burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into curling and drying barn. Russell Spears' farm near Lexington, Kentucky, 1940." (Marion Post Wolcott/FSA)