Tobacco association procures 10,000t coal

(chronicle.co.zw) THE Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) has procured 10 000 tonnes of coal [for use in tobacco curing] from Hwange Colliery Company Limited for distribution to contract companies in the sector during the 2010/11 summer cropping season. ZTA president Mr Kevin Cooke told Business Chronicle yesterday that his association was facilitating the distribution of coal to companies that entered into contract arrangements with farmers to grow the crop. “As ZTA, we facilitate with logistical arrangements on behalf of companies that contracted farmers to grow tobacco to move coal from Hwange Colliery Company Limited. So far, we have moved 10 000 tonnes of coal and it is being distributed to the farmers in all the tobacco growing regions,” he said. Continued

Photo: "Coming out of tobacco barn in which tobacco is being cured. Careful check of temperature must be made. Granville County, North Carolina," 1939. (Dorothea Lange)