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| Title: | A Smoky Affair: Challenges Facing Some Small-Holder Burley Tobacco Producers in Zimbabwe |
| Author: | Magadlela, Dumisani |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Periodical: | Zambezia |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 13-30 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | small farms tobacco Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry Tobacco industry Farms, Small agricultural production |
| External link: | https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_464 |
| Abstract: | Tobacco production and marketing require specific skills and knowledge of the technical aspects involved in handling the crop from the field, through the curing process in the barn, to the auction floor. Tobacco production is technically more demanding than, for example, maize production, but it is financially more lucrative. With their limited resources, smallholder burley tobacco producers in some remote areas of Zimbabwe strive to keep up with their large-scale commercial colleagues. Both types of farmers often complain of the poor prices they receive. However, when it comes to the production process, they have differing problems. The problems of smallholder farmers relate to the size of landholdings and crop rotations, barn construction and curing methods (forcing them at times to adopt unconventional methods), and the support systems available to them. Their problems may be linked both to the fact that cash crop production is not their priority activity and their general need to secure food reserves. Data derive from research carried out from 1994 to 1996 among smallholder irrigation farmers in Nyamaropa irrigation scheme in the Nyanga District of Manicaland Province, eastern Zimbabwe. |
