Spread This NewsBy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe This story was originally published by Global Press Journal Land reforms gave Zimbabweans farms — but contract tobacco deals have handed power to private ...

Zimbabwe's tobacco industry has continued to record impressive export earnings, with revenues approaching US$1 billion in 2024. However, behind the success ...

Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a drought blamed on climate change.

HARARE - Fifteen years after Zimbabwe's agriculture sector collapsed in the face of President Robert Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, its tobacco industry is again booming, with black ...

A few thousand white farmers produced the bulk of the tobacco crop before the land reform but now the number of Black growers, mainly small-scale, has risen to more than 145,000.

Women sort tobacco at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, April, 9, 2022. Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to ...

Women sort tobacco at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, April, 9, 2022. Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to ...

Having started farming on her late father's 60- hectare (148-acre) farm in Mashonaland Central - one of Zimbabwe's most fertile regions - she has also ventured into cultivating soya beans and ...

Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to fight deforestation and child labor in response to pressure from rights groups ...

Women sort tobacco at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, April, 9, 2022. Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to ...

Women sort tobacco at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, April, 9, 2022. Zimbabwe, Africas biggest tobacco grower, has opened its selling season for the crop amid pledges to ...