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• Child Labour Threatens Tobacco Market 

Auction Holdings Limited Malawi, has called on tobacco farmers to stop using children in their farms.

The company's General Manager Evance Matabwa said this practice of using children to work in tobacco estates is against international labour laws.

"Children are not supposed to work in farms and estates. As Auction Holdings, we are against this practice and we are appealing to farmers to desist from it, not only because it is wrong, but it is also against international labour laws," Matabwa said.

He said the use of child labour in tobacco farmers was ruining the reputation of the country, and scaring away buyers.

"Child labour is prohibited on the international trade.

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