Posted on 03/23/2017 5:25:56 PM PDT by Trump20162020
HARARE — Zimbabwe has opened its 2017 tobacco-selling season with hopes the “golden leaf” will change the economic fortunes of the southern African nation. Officials say the tobacco yield has been increasing after a downward turn in 2000 when the government chased white commercial farmers off their land.
Zimbabwean farmers applauded after the 2017 tobacco selling season began Wednesday in Harare at the country’s biggest auction floor.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya saluted the farmers.
“Producers of tobacco are indeed our heroes. You are important to this economy. The foreign currency you produce is above $800 million a year. That amount is enough to [buy oil for] Zimbabwe throughout the whole year. Zimbabwe spends about $60 million in fuel per month. You do produce enough fuel in this economy, therefore your importance can never be underestimated,” Mangudya said.
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Well, if they have enough tobacco left over after selling most of it to pay for imported oil, maybe they can make tobacco sandwiches to feed the masses. But that, of course, would require bread in addition to the tobacco.
Who’s growing it?
The White farmers they ran off or native Zimbabweans?
Don’t make me laugh....
Step 1. Get rid of President Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe - The “Detroit Michigan” of nations.
At one time Detroit and Rhodesia were two of the most productive, wealth producing pieces of real estate on the planet.
Then in 1965 the hammer of “Racial Justice” fell on both of them.
Today they are bottomless pits.
These morons can’t even manage to grow crops, as once was grown in Zimbabwe and gave her the title of “AFRICA’S BREAD BASKET”, but imagine, in a world where smoking tobacco is akin to being a cannibal or a child molester will be a BIG cash crop? LOL
In the West, sure. Not Asia though, they smoke like crazy there.
tobacco may or may not help the Z economy
but
marijuana sure would help the Z economy!
it is reportedly alreadly Californication’s number one cash crop
Tobacco was a major cash crop for Rhodesia...the same Afretair planes used for sanction-busting were also flying highly-regarded Rhodesian tobacco and beef out to the world market.
Of course, most of the people that successfully pulled it all off are either gone or have scattered to the four winds now.
Besides which, those now "farming" in Zimbabwe, don't know what they're doing...still and I bet that their tobacco is lousy!
Yeah, if you can kick off your buddies to whom you gave those farms to and bring back the people that know how to grow it, well right. Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa exporting all sorts of produce but now it’s needing imports they have to pay with super inflated money that nobody wants. It’s whities fault.
does this mean the UN will start encouraging tobacco use?
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the government was handing out cigarettes to be planted.
” in a world where smoking tobacco is akin to being a cannibal or a child molester-——”
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Really ?
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Don't you pay attention to what's going on ?
Those in power, in Zimbabwe are ONLY interested in pocketing money, hidden away in many different foreign banks and don’t give a damn about that nation, nor its populace. This has been the cased for a very long time.
“Yes, REALLY!
Don’t you pay attention to what’s going on ? “
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Of course. There are zealots out there,similar to the crazed women against Trump,but most people don’t seem to care.
One of my granddaughters is in Germany and she said that they smoke in most of the pubs,which surprised her (She’s not a smoker)
Hardly a world wide problem.
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They have cracked down on smokers in the UK and yes, unbelievably, in France too! They ARE talking about doing so in Germany too; they just haven't let that hammer fall....yet.
And don't get me started about what it's like here, in the once GREAT US of A!
“And don’t get me started about what it’s like here, in the once GREAT US of A! “
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I am a smoker——and well aware that it will take YEARS off of my life——I may not even make it to my 85th birthday next September.
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Tobacco takes a lot of work to grow and put it up. Good luck with that with the current Rhodesian work force.
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