Zimbabwe's Growers to be Paid More Promptly

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 03/27/2009

Attempts will be made this season to pay Zimbabwe's tobacco growers promptly so that they will not be forced, as they were last year, to build makeshift homes outside the auction floors as they wait days for payments to be made. According to a report in The Herald, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) chairman, Njodzi Machirori, has said he wants growers to be paid within one and a half-hours of selling their tobacco. This would enable growers to minimise the time they spent at the tobacco auction floors. Making growers wait for days for their payments was simply cruel, he added. The 2009 tobacco-selling season is expected to start during the last week of next month. Enditem