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Tobacco farmers have described the ongoing tobacco market as mixed, saying despite prices being higher compared to the previous season, high costs of production could eat into their earnings. The farmers expressed the sentiments on Friday when the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture visited Limbe Floors in Blantyre to appreciate progress on the tobacco sales. Zomba-based

Tobacco farmers’ dissatisfaction with tobacco marketing trends is pushing some of them from the auction to the contract system of selling tobacco. The farmers’ assertions come on the back of Tobacco Commission (TC) figures indicating that the number of farmers under the auction system is on the decline. TC data shows that over the past

Tobacco farmers and other stakeholders in the industry yesterday expressed satisfaction with the good prices offered at the opening of Limbe Auction Floors in Blantyre for the 2023 Tobacco Marketing Season. The highest price on contract market was recorded at $2.60 (about K2 693) per kilogramme (kg) while on the auction market, the highest price

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The Tobacco Commission (TC) has announced that the 2022 tobacco marketing season will open on 31st March, starting with Lilongwe Floors followed by the

Malawi's 2022 tobacco marketing season opens March 31 Business - The Maravi Post

Tobacco Commission (TC) has today announced the opening of the 2022 tobacco marketing season starting with Lilongwe Floors on March 31 and Limbe Floors on April

Galvanised by global hunger trends, one of Malawi’s largest development partner, The United States of America (USA) Government, through the US Agency for International Development (Usaid), has pumped in $9.5 million (about K7.7 billion) to the World Food Programme (WFP) towards efforts the country’s fight against hunger, which still ravaging the Southeast African nation. The […]

April 26, 2021 Alfred Chauwa-Nyasa Times 3 Comments Agriculture minister Lobin Lowe has expressed fury over the high rejection rate currently at 72 percent. Lowe expressed the concern in Limbe Blantyre, when he presided over commissioning of this year’s Limber Auction Floors tobacco marketing season. The agriculture minister said his Ministry has since summoned all stakeholders to discuss the problem and that he that a lasting solution will be found. “We are worried with the rejectio...