Saturday, February 16, 2013

Zimbabwe: Improve Leaf Quality - Tobacco Farmers Urged

 

(allAfrica.com) Tobacco Farmers have been urged to improve leaf quality in order to attract lucrative sale prices.
At the official opening of this year's tobacco's marketing season on Wednesday, Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) chairperson Monica Chinamasa said growers should engage the expertise of agricultural extension services and farmers' unions to improve their tobacco agronomy.
... She said farmers should aim to produce tobacco that competes on international markets by investing in efficient curing, grading, presentation facilities as well as skills in order to avoid compromising the price offered and the buyers' final export product. Continued

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