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Tobacco Deliveries Improve  

Tobacco deliveries to the auction floors have improved over the last few days as the impasse over pricing has subsided. At the Tobacco Sales Floors yesterday, tobacco was fetching between US$3 and US$4 per kg, a slight decline from US$5 last week, while auction sales at the Burley Marketing Zimbabwe were in the region of US$3 per kg.

Contract sales at TSF were ranging between US$1,50 and US$3 per kg. While auction sales passed without incident, some small-scale contract farmers protested over prices for their tobacco. Some farmers alleged that contractors were shortchanging them as they were being made to sell their tobacco under contract when they had received little support from contractors.

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