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Jump to full article: Zimbabwe Herald (zw), 2008-04-30
Author: Herald Reporter
Intro: GOVERNMENT has awarded tobacco farmers a $70 million support price for every US dollar earned for the 2008 selling season, scheduled to open this morning.
The 2008 tobacco-selling season, which was postponed from last week to this week, is therefore, now expected to start today.
The official opening ceremony was expected to take place at 7.30am at the Tobacco Sales Floors.
Although in our business section, which was printed earlier, we carry a story that we were not sure of the outcome of negotiations between growers, the industry and Government, last night Agriculture Minister Cde Rugare Gumbo said the support price was arrived at after consultations with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
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