Prices firm as tobacco season begins

ZIMBABWE’S tobacco marketing season kicked off yesterday, with the first leaf fetching US$4,30 per kilogramme at the auction floors in Harare.

This price was higher than the US$4 per kg at the start of the selling season last year.

Farmers’ unions urged their members to hold on to their best quality leaf for now as prices were expected to firm as the season progressed.

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