Tag: TIMB
Air-Cured Tobacco Cuts Costs for Matabeleland Farmers
Itai Ndongwe
BULAWAYO – A low-cost, air-cured tobacco production model is reducing farming expenses and limiting deforestation in Matabeleland, as the Tobacco Industry and Marketing...
TIMB Suspends Country-Agro From Buying Tobacco Over Pricing Concerns
By Itai Ndongwe
HARARE – The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has temporarily suspended Country-Agro Ltd from all tobacco buying activities over concerns about...
TIMB licences Cavendish Tobacco to support Shisha production
By Talkmore Gandiwa
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has licensed Cavendish Lloyd Tobacco to contract and support shisha tobacco production in Zimbabwe. Shisha...
TIMB moves to address tobacco payment delays
Farai Mabeza
The Tobacco and Industry Marketing Board has expressed concern at the continued payment delays and reluctance to release farmers from their contracts by...
Tobacco deliveries slower than expected: TIMB
Farai Mabeza
Tobacco deliveries are slower than expected because farmers are not happy with the fixed exchange rate of 1:25 under which they are required...
Tobacco sales top US$14m on day seven
HARARE – At least 6.16 million kilograms of tobacco worth 13.95 million US dollars have been sold so far since the start of tobacco...
TIMB sees 15% drop in tobacco volume to 220m kgs; 30%...
Farai Mabeza
HARARE – Zimbabwe expects that 30 percent of all tobacco sales will be done outside Harare after Government gazetted a statutory instrument authorising...
