Tobacco selling season extended

The Tobacco Commission on Friday extended the 2025 tobacco selling season to 12^th September to allow farmers to sell all their crop.

Trading was due to close on 29^th August.

Chinkhoma and Lilongwe markets will now close on 5^th September, 2025 while sales at Mzuzu Floors will be wound up on 12^th September.

This is the second extension this season. Sales at Chinkhoma and Lilongwe Floors were initially due for closure on 22^nd and 29^th August, respectively.

However, reports have been showing farmers in the central and northern regions have more tobacco than can be sold at the floors without extending the selling season.

Limbe Floors already closed on 8^th August.

By Friday, 22^nd August, 201, 697, 977 kilogrammes of tobacco valued at US$509, 888, 870.54 had been sold at an average price of US$2.53 per kilogramme.