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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2003-08-01
Author: Bakari Machumu / Business Times (Dar es Salaam)
Intro: LOCAL researchers should collaborate with their foreign colleagues and come out with less hazardous tobacco breeds, the minister for Agriculture and Food Security, Charles Keenja, suggests.
Short of that, he cautions, the crop has no future globally. Through the Tobacco Research of Tanzania centre in Urambo, Tanzanian experts need to search for a breed which has no or little amount of nicotin, he said.
He continued: "Yes, we need the crop. We need the money from the crop and related industries... However we should not continue to ignore the effects of smoking on our health.
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