Jump to full article: Newsnet (zw), 2009-07-03
Intro: The unveiling of a whopping US$60 million tobacco facility by Afrexim Bank at the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association congress has triggered concern from Tobacco Regulatory Board, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board and representatives of small scale farmers.
The board and small scale farmers' representatives questioned the logic of unveiling such huge amounts of money to an association which represents only 200 white farmers at the expense of over 57 000 black farmers.
Salt lakes Holdings feel their exclusion from the occasion is back door way of re-empowering a few white commercial farmers at the expense of the newly resettled farmers who are now the backbone of agriculture sector.
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