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Bhutan lifts the ten-year-old ban on tobacco due to pandemic
The remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, known for embracing a gross national happiness index and outlawing television before 1999, has...
Crop Size declines by 15% due to the impact of COVID-19 in Andhra Pradesh, India
Tobacco Board has reduced the crop size in Andhra Pradesh to 115 thousand tons, from the 135 thousand tons last...
Tobacco Marketing Season in Zimbabwe Declines by 23% Due to COVID-19 Restrictions
The 2020 tobacco marketing season officially came to an end after most growers sold their crop and are now concentrating...
"Feeling Their Pain" by Tobacco Reporter
The International Tobacco Growers Association is campaigning to help noncontracted farmers cope with the coronavirus pandemic. While the multinational cigarette...
Interview with Mr. José J. Aranda (ITGA Vice-President) (Salta, Argentina)
ITGA has been in close contact with its member associations and is working to assess the main difficulties this crisis...
Malawi Farmers Drag Tobacco Commission to Court Over COVID-19 Strict Measures
"Irate tobacco farmers have taken Tobaco Commission to court for its decision not to allow the growers witness the sale...
TIMB reviews tobacco selling conditions
"The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB), has relaxed part of the stringent conditions for tobacco marketing this year that...
Cigarette Manufacturer's COVID-19 Vaccine wil begin tests in Humans
"An experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by cigarette maker British American Tobacco Plc is poised to begin testing in humans. Pre-clinical tests...
Zimbabwe: First Bale Fetches $4 per Kilo
Zimbabwe’s 2020 tobacco marketing season opened Wednesday, April 29, with the first bale selling at $4 per kg, reports The Herald....
95 per cent of tobacco unsold
Only 5 per cent of India’s tobacco has been auctioned, whilst in previous years around 50 per cent of tobacco...
Tobacco sales at Chinkhoma impressive
Tobacco sales at Chinkhoma Auction Floors, have been described as impressive with the maximum price reaching US$ 2.40 per Kg...
COVID-19 Efforts (Zimbabwe) by Mayiwepi Jitti
The ITGA has focused its efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic in the areas and members which would be most...
Double tragedy as malaria surge towards 136 000 cases complicating Covid-19 detection.
"The Ministry of Health and Child Care has released shocking statistics of malaria cases amid fears that these could be...
Interview with Daniel Green (ITGA Ex-President) (USA)
ITGA has been in close contact with its member associations and is working to assess the main difficulties this crisis...
Zimbabwe: Tobacco Sales to Be Decentralized
Zimbabwe will decentralize its tobacco sales this year to avoid concentrations of people and prevent the spread of the coronavirus,...
Leaf Sales Commence in Malawi
Maximum prices for contract tobacco reached $2.30 per kg while noncontract leaf fetched $1.20 on the first day of the...
Tobacco stakeholders set COVID-19 guidelines
AS COVID-19 continues to rear its ugly head globally and locally, stakeholders in the tobacco industry have proposed an operational...
Misiones: Tobacco Delivery started with the prevention protocol
Measures to prevent COVID-19 were launched at the CTM in Alem. With shifts and controls, producers were able to deliver the product. This first stage will be until Wednesday.
Malawi Markets to Open Amid Covid-19
The Malawi government earlier decided that tobacco markets should open to protect growers.
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe tobacco auctions hang by a thread
With this prevailing pandemic in mind, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board has written to the Ministry of Health and Child Care seeking an urgent response