Zimbabwe Importing Burley Tobacco?

(allAfrica.com) Just recently, The Sunday Mail ran a story headlined "Zimbabwe to import blending tobacco" in which it revealed that the country was expected to import 13,3 million kilogrammes of tobacco worth over US$44,5 million.
The tobacco was purportedly needed for blending with locally-produced flavours.
It was expected to come from Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, India and China. Continued

Photo: First Lady Rosalynn Carter with Waylon Jennings, smoking a cigarette, and Jesse Colter at a reception preceding a concert to benefit the Carter-Mondale campaign, 1980 (Library of Congress).