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The 2024 tobacco marketing season opened in Harare on Wednesday, 13 March, with the first bale going under the hammer for US$4.92 per kilogramme up from US$4.35 registered on day one last year.
Speaking at the official opening of this year’s tobacco marketing season, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga expressed optimism that deliveries will be high despite the current drought. He said (via <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/tobacco-silver-lining-amid-drought/">The Herald</a>):
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I am happy that the estimates which I have been given, regardless of the difficult year we have all experienced, will not go down below those of 2021, the figures will be hovering above.
While we will not get the 300 million kg we wanted, I am happy that the irrigated crop has proved to be good. The 2024 season is looking good, we will recover.
Government regards the tobacco industry as a sector with great potential to grow and increase our country’s export earnings.
This realisation led to the launch of the Tobacco Value Chain Transformation Plan.
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Tobacco production is this year expected to be around 265 million kilogrammes, below last year’s 296 million kg due to the El Niño-induced drought.
Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) chairman Patrick Devenish revealed that this year 113 101 hectares were planted compared to 117 645 hectares last year and registered growers had decreased to 115 114 from 148 300 last year. He said:
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The Board has also approved decentralised contract sales to be conducted at five designated centres and these are Karoi, Mvurwi, Bindura, Marondera and Rusape.
This season, RBZ (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe) advised that the foreign currency retention for tobacco is 75 per cent in line with the retention level for other market players.
Despite our efforts to restore order and sanity in the industry, we are still grappling with the challenge of growers who continue to cut down indigenous trees for curing tobacco.
The cutting down of indigenous trees is attracting a lot of negative attention from the global market, with some threatening to stop partnering with us.
To alleviate this challenge, the board has partnered with Hwange Colliery and Kutsaga to provide tobacco farmers with discounted coal for curing.
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This year two auction floors; Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Auction Floors, have been licenced by TIMB.
The floors handle deliveries of tobacco not grown under contract and help create the pricing system that then applies to the contracted crops, with adjustments up and down for quality.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

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Tobacco Marketing Season Kicks Off At US$4.92 Per Kg

The 2023 tobacco marketing season officially opens today, 08 March 2023, with the contract floors set to open tomorrow.
The official opening ceremony will be held on Wednesday morning at the Tobacco Sales Floor (TSF) where Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is expected to officiate.
Two auction floors, that is, Tobacco Sales Floor (TSF) and Premier Tobacco Auction Floors (PTAF), have been licenced by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB).
This season, tobacco farmers will be paid 85 percent of their sales proceeds in foreign currency and the remaining quarter in Zimbabwe dollars.
The 85 percent will be paid directly into the growers’ foreign currency accounts and this is treated as free funds.
The 15 percent local currency will be deposited into the growers’ local bank accounts or e-wallets.
Tobacco Farmers Union Trust president, Victor Mariranyika told <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/tobacco-marketing-season-starts-today-4/">The Herald</a> that this season’s yield is expected to be better than last season. He said:
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This year’s yield will be better than the previous season’s due to the implementation of best agronomic practises.
In terms of agronomic practices, the farmers have been and are looking after the crop very well, from seedbed to the auction, and we don’t expect any damage to the tobacco as a result of the rains.
The area under tobacco has increased this year because of the incentives the farmers have received from Government.
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Farmers were expected to be fully vaccinated to gain access to the floors, that is, should have received at least two doses.
More: <a href="https://zero.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Tobacco Marketing Season Set To Start Today

Zimbabwe’s US Dollar shortage is set to worsen due to the late onset of the tobacco marketing season, the Daily News reports.
This was revealed by Ben Gilpin, executive director of the Commercial Farmers Union who spoke to the publication and said:
<blockquote>It’s the cash flow that’s the biggest concern for everyone,The people that provide finance to tobacco farmers did so until the end of March, with the expectation that from April debts are being serviced, but there is no money now.</blockquote>
The economy which was projected to grow by 1.8% initially might also take a knock because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in the government imposing a 21 days lockdown to curb spreading the virus.
More: <a href="https://dailynews.co.zw/us-shortages-set-to-worsen/">Daily News </a>

Zimbabwe's Severe US Dollar Shortages Set To Worsen

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