Zimbabwe's tobacco selling season opens tomorrow with at least 150 million kg expected to be sold this year up from 132.5 million kg sold last year, reports The Zimbabwean.

“It is a bit too difficult to make an accurate production at this point, however, we expect anything within the range of 190 million kilogrammes of tobacco to be sold this season,” told a top official at Tobacco Sales Floor (TSF), one of Zimbabwe’s biggest auction floors, the newspaper.
The figure would be not touch the 236 million kg record sales realised in the 1999/2000 season before land reforms destabilised agriculture. But tobacco output has steadily increased over the past four seasons as more black villagers resettled on former white farmers opted for the highly rewarding cash crop. (pi)