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Zimbabwe: Tobacco Farmers Destroy 50 000ha Forests Annually [1]

Tobacco farmers across the country destroy about 50 000 hectares of forested land to cure the crop every year, a senior Forestry Commission official has said.

Publication Date: 
08/06/2016
All Africa [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Deforestation [4], Zimbabwe [5], Agriculture [6], Tobacco [7], Farmers [8], Africa [9]
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