Not so golden season for tobacco: Transporters broke, farmers dumped

ZIMBABWE’S 2026 tobacco season is imploding, leaving transporters stranded and broke in Karoi and elsewhere while farmers watch their crop rot in queues that stretch for days.

“We have spent days hoping our turn will come, but the queues are snaking around and betraying us,” said Rodgers Banda from Mhangura.

“The money for food is gone.

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