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• Tobacco companies ordered to take care of land 

Rukwa Regional Commissioner Daniel Njolay has directed all tobacco companies operating in the region to establish tree nurseries and distribute seedlings to tobacco farmers in the coming rainy season.

The move aims at providing the farmers with sustainable source of firewood for curing tobacco crop in the long run instead of overdependence on natural forests, a practice blamed for causing severe deforestation in the region.

Njoolay was briefing the press at his office on Tuesday and held responsible both tobacco companies and farmers for damaging the land through reckless harvesting of trees for tobacco cure.

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