Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather ...

With cultivation dating back thousands of years, tobacco was an important crop for various Native American nations in North ...

HARARE, ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Once the proud cash crop of the state, Tobacco is a shrinking business in the Commonwealth. Tobacco, the leading crop, even as recent as 2003, doesn’t even crack the top ten today.

The time has come for us to think out of the box to catch up with the rest of Uganda and escape from the unenviable position ...

A plant that looks like marijuana is bound to give drug agents a big headache. , which resemble its cousin, marijuana, is a crop many tobacco farmers may turn to. The 4,000-year-old plant, which is ...

HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmer Kenny Mabvumbe looked upset as he returned virtually empty-handed from the tobacco auction floors in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare. His decision to ...

Jamie Raley's family has been farming in St. Mary's County since Abraham Lincoln was president, mostly growing tobacco. But with the drop in U.S. cigarette smoking over the past decade, tobacco no ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality ...