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Farmers Regret Growing Tobacco 

FOR the past two weeks Gloria and Samuel Mwedziwendira’s home has been an open area outside the Tobacco Sales Floor along Willowvale Road in the industrial suburb of Southerton.

They say they are first-time tobacco growers, having occupied a farm in the Bindura area in 2004. They arrived at the tobacco auction floors from Bindura on 3 June and spent another four days waiting for their tobacco to be sold.

Now, the couple says they have been waiting ever since their tobacco went under the hammer to get their pay cheques and return home.

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