Jump to full article: Daily Times (mw), 2009-05-12
Author: FRANCIS TAYANJAH-PHIRI
Intro: SOME tobacco growers selling their leaf on contract arrangement with tobacco companies in the country have bitterly complained that they are getting low prices as compared to their counterparts selling on the open floors at the Mzuzu Auction Floors.
The growers on Friday pleaded with Deputy Agriculture Minister Frank Mwenifumbo to intervene and bring sanity in the arranged tobacco marketing.
"As growers we feel it is time that contract buying should end because it is reaping us off. These companies come to us and seduce us that when we sign contracts with them they will give us good prices, which is not the case especially this year," said Green Chavula, a grower from Rumphi.
He said what makes the farmers more bitter was the fact that their colleagues who send their tobacco to auction floors were making more money obviously from competition.
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