Some tobacco farmers say the push for a safer cigarette may be behind an unintended side-effect to this year’s harvest: an alarming increase in curing barn fires. Tobacco farmer Roger Oxendine rests ...

THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has launched a nationwide fire prevention campaign to protect fast-growing tree woodlots used in tobacco curing as Zimbabwe enters the 2025 fire season.

Jefferson Ballew thought a frost warning was reason for concern for his home garden and for the organic farm crops of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, which included the community’s “offering ...

THE Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Settlement ministry is conducting studies on the possible use of solar to cure tobacco as deforestation plagues Zimbabwe. This emerged at a climate ...