Zimbabwe finds a burley tobacco buyer

(newsday.co.zw) The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has secured a buyer for burley tobacco which had failed to find any takers during the just-ended tobacco selling season. The tobacco selling season started in February and closed last month without any burley tobacco being sold. It could, however, not be established how many kilogrammes were harvested this year. Burley tobacco is consumed locally and used for manufacturing cigarettes. Continued