As the tobacco selling season closed on Friday August 2, the Tobacco Commission had licensed 60.2 million kilogrammes of tobacco, almost trebling the volumes licensed by the same date last year. By August 2 last year, the Commission had licensed 21.7million kilogrammes.
By August 2, the Commission had issued 12,778 licenses while by the same date last year, 4, 913 licenses had been issued.
Progress of the grower registration and licensing exercise has impressed the Commission as the data proves growing interest in the production of the crop in the 2024/2025 farming season.
The Commission believes good prices offered to growers in the just ended selling season have motivated the growing interest.
In recent years, Malawi has been failing to meet the annual trade demand for the country’s tobacco. In the 2023/2024 farming and selling season, for instance, the trade demand for Malawi tobacco was at 190 million kilogrammes. However, under 140 million kilogrammes has been sold.
The Commission aims to increase annual tobacco production in the country to 200 million kilogrammes by 2028.
Grower licensing for the 2024/2025 farming season continues up to the end of September.
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