Malawi Reduces Its Minimum Flue-Cured Tobacco Price by 15%, Nation Reports

(Bloomberg) Malawi, the world’s largest producer of burley tobacco, reduced the minimum price of the flue-cured variety of the leaf by 15 percent, the Nation reported, citing the Tobacco Control Commission, which regulates the industry. Continued

Photo: Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, 1940. (Marion Post Wolcott/FSA/Library of Congress)