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Pay tobacco farmers in cash-Sitta 

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Samuel Sitta, has instructed tobacco buyers to pay in cash when purchasing the crop from farmers instead of the prevailing notorious payments in terms of inputs.

Sitta who is also the Urambo East parliamentarian told local entrepreneurs here that tobacco buying companies were initially accepted by the Government as buyers of the commercial crop and not suppliers of inputs.

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