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Malawi’s Tobacco Earnings Down 31% After 14 Weeks of Trading 

Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2009-07-06
Author: Frank Jomo

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Tobacco earnings in Malawi, the world’s largest producer of the burley variety, have fallen 31 percent after 14 weeks of trading compared with a year earlier, according to Auction Holdings Ltd., a buyer.

Earnings from tobacco fetched $161.2 million by June 23, compared with $233.9 million during the same period a year earlier, Auction said in a statement handed to reporters in Blantyre today.

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