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Tobacco Production Rising in Tete 

The director general General Director of the Zambezi Development Planning Office (GPZ), Sergio Vieira, has expressed hopes that tobacco leaf production in the western Mozambican province of Tete would reach 10,000 tonnes in the 2001 crop season. A yield of 10,000 tonnes is considered to be the threshold that would make the construction of a tobacco processing factory viable.

Mozambican tobacco is currently being processed in Malawi due to the low production and lack of local processing units. Vieira said that it was necessary to increase production of tobacco leaves in Mozambique, so that the country can free itself from dependence on the Malawian factories. About 8,000 tonnes were produced in 2000.

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