Africa’s top tobacco grower is poised to take its place as one of the leading tobacco-growing nations in the world. However, farmers who work on contract farming schemes dominated by Chinese companies ...

HADLEY — Nick Uchneat has spent the summers farming tobacco since he was 9 years old. He initially started by tagging along with his close friend, whose father Paul Jekanowski owns Jekanowski Farm, ...

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

Dark-fired tobacco, a lucrative crop used for pipe tobacco and cigars, has long been a lifeline for farmers in Robertson County, Tennessee. Despite its profitability, tobacco farming is facing ...

Tobacco Commission (TC) board chairperson the Reverend Timothy Nyasulu says the regulatory authority will ensure that farmers ...

HARARE — Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to $1 billion in revenue. But though the crop is one of the ...

Tobacco farming in the U.S., mainly concentrated in North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, in order of production, is on the decline due to changing habits, overseas competition and other ...

Currently, top producers of tobacco are China (39.6%), India (8.3%), Brazil (7.0%) and the United States (4.6%), yet over 120 countries produce such crops, over an area estimated to be of 4 million ...

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Marvin Eaton has decided he won’t grow tobacco this year, after more than four decades of raising the crop in Forsyth County. Submitted photo After more than four centuries of ubiquity and profits, ...

Minister of Agriculture Roza Fatchi Mbilizi on Tuesday presided over the Tobacco Industry Conference held at the Capital Hotel in Lilongwe.Speaking during the conference, Mbilizi said her ministry has ...