TBZ starts buying tobacco from East farmers

TOBACCO Board of Zambia (TBZ) has advised independent and sponsored growers of burley tobacco in Eastern Province who still have excess produce to start selling the commodity at the Chipata and Lundazi tobacco sales floors.
TBZ chief executive officer Aven Muvwende said in a statement in Chipata yesterday that starting from yesterday, the board would be buying tobacco grown in Zambia and only from registered independent farmers including sponsored farmers who had excess produce.
He said this was through powers vested in the board, power number 16 of the Tobacco Act CAP 237 of the Laws of Zambia. Continued