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Zimbabwe dangles carrots for tobacco investors

Minister of Agriculture, Anxious Masuka

AUTHORITIES are aggressively courting inves­tors to join the tobacco value chain, offering lucrative incentives to establish local cigarette manufacturing operations. This initiative aims to boost value addition, create jobs, and increase export earnings. Zimbabwe currently stands as Africa’s largest to­bacco producer and the world’s fourth-largest grower, accounting for over 95 percent of flue-cured Virginia tobacco…

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