Tobacco farmers saddled with debts

Malawi earned $286.7 million from tobacco this year, but the men and women who grew the crop are starting the new farming season with nothing but debt. Earnings have crashed by 47 percent from $542 million last year, and the pain has been pushed down to 70 percent of growers who are contracted farmers. Tobacco … The post Tobacco farmers saddled with debts appeared first on Nation Online .