CURING-BASED DEFORESTATION CONTINUES TO CONCERN ZIMBABWE TOBACCO SECTOR
May 26th, 2015
The scale of Zimbabwe’s reforestation programmes needs to vastly increase if they are going to counter the decimation of the country’s forests by the tobacco industry, a leading agricultural expert has warned. Harare-based agriculture consultant Charles Taffs believes that if the current rate of deforestation continues without significant intervention, in less than seven years the 80,000 small-scale tobacco producers who supply the industry will have no wood left to burn for the leaf curing process. “The facts are that 600 hectares of timber were planted ...
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