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Virus lockdown darkens hopes for Zimbabwean tobacco rebound

Apr 18, 2020 - 4:00 PM

Tobacco is Zimbabwe's second biggest foreign currency earner after gold. The industry's prospects are now clouded by the impact of the coronavirus.

A woman carrying a load of tobacco leaves after hand reaping the crop at Tilisa farm in Bromley on April 15, 2020, ahead of the start of the tobacco selling season scheduled to begin on April 22, 2020, but now likely to be disrupted due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - Tobacco farmers fear the national lockdown measures could disrupt marketing of their crop which is the country's second biggest foreign currency earner after gold. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)