According to Tobacco Commission (TC) chief executive officer Kayisi Sadala, the lockdown in Zimbabwe, is depriving a tobacco buyer named Voedsel Tobacco Company, from coming to the green gold market.

Sadala told reporters that the lockdown has delayed the company from buying tobacco in Malawi. Meanwhile the market has been registering improved prices, coupled with farmer’s disapproval of the Tobacco Act.  

A mixed bag of the first four weeks of the tobacco market;  he green gold market has made K20 Billion in the last week, as the figure could have been higher if it was not for the coronavirus pandemic coupled with high rejection rates reaching up to 40%, while prices are 30% higher than last year’s season.