Tobacco sales this season were the worst. Poor farmers produced more good quality tobacco in return they got peanuts. They could not pay their farm workers. Quarrels were the order of the day. Some poor farmers committed suicide because they could not pay input debts.
The President did not make outburst against buyers as he used to. We simply lost the game. Is it because of anti-smoking lobby. No. a big No. Why?
Our neighbours, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique were getting better prices. Smugglers who were managing to illegally take their tobacco to the markets were making big profits and wealth. Sad though most of them had their tobacco impounded by the watchful police.
What is their next year? I will report.
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