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‘Contract agriculture stifles tobacco farmers’

RUTENDO NGARASenior Staff Writer DESPITE achieving a record tobacco output in the 2024/25 marketing season, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) says that most farmers still rely on contract farming, which is unsustainable. More than 60 percent of tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe operate under contract. TIMB spokesperson Chelesani Tsarwe said there was a need…

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