The Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) will hold two flue-cured tobacco auction mop-up sales in October.

TIMB's acting chief executive Dr Andrew Matibiri said that the first flue-cured tobacco auction clean up sale will be held on October 14 with the next taking place on 28 October.
Deliveries of tobacco to the country's three auction floors have been relatively poor compared to last season. By the end of the current season at the end of September, only 45 million kg were sold compared to 75 million kg that had been sold during the same period in the year before.(pi)