ZAMBIA’S ANNUAL TOBACCO PRODUCTION TO DROP 10% DUE TO DROUGHT AS PRODUCTION COSTS RISE
May 19th, 2024
Zambia’s annual tobacco production is expected to drop by 10% to 42.3 million kg in 2024 from an annual peak production of 47 million kg produced last year (2023), according to Phil Daka, chairperson at the Tobacco Board of Zambia (TBZ). This decline follows one of the worst droughts the country has experienced. It was prompted by the El Niño climate phenomenon causing changes in weather patterns.
Zambia is among the top five tobacco leaf growing countries in Africa and tobacco is one of the country’s foreign currency earners, according to the World Health ...
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