Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2009-10-22
Author: Leonard Makombe
Intro: LACK of finance continues to hamper a proper rebound of tobacco production as the planting of irrigated tobacco started last week. Financing of the 2009-2010 tobacco season has been unstable, with prospective financers still to make a full commitment.
This is likely to affect the anticipated increase in production which has far reaching effects on the entire economy.
Zimbabwe Tobacco Association president Kevin Cooke confirmed that the planting of the dry land crop started last week.
"Basically planting of the dry land crop went ahead well but there are problems with the unavailability of inputs and finance for the production of the crop," said Cooke. "There is a large number of tobacco farmers who have not received inputs on time and this may affect ultimate production."
A rebound of tobacco production has continuously been hampered by unavailability of inputs.
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