Export of Tobacco and its Advantages
Published on September 14, 2009 8:59 AM
Tobacco is today one of biggest industries in the world. Tobacco is what you might call "smoking hot." In our days, the most profitable time in people entire life is to be a tobacco farmer and to export their tobacco products to different countries.For example, Tete has become the world's biggest tobacco exporter, and tobacco is the country's biggest foreign-currency earner.
The tobacco producing company in the western Mozambican province of Tete, the Mozambique Leaf Tobacco, intends to export up to 43,000 tonnes of tobacco products by the end of this year.
The company's general manager, Rod Hagger, told AIM that exports this year are supposed to rise by about 4,000 tonnes if compared with last year's.
He said: "We exported 39,000 tonnes to various countries across the world last year, and we expect to export 43,000 tonnes this year, which represents an increase by 4,000 tonnes."
Mr. Hagger explained that his company will export to Europe, to Russia, to Latin America, to Australia, South Africa, and other countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Mozambique Leaf Tobacco is currently using 4,000 workers in their processing factory in Tete, and also helping 120,000 farmers in Tete, in the central Zambezia, and in the northern Niassa provinces. Tobacco is one of the most important cash crops in Tete, alongside cotton, and other crops such as maize, cassava, millet, rice, among others.
Tobacco is also one of the products that most contributed to the volume of exports in Tete between 2005 and 2008, that grew from 2.38 billion meticais (about 89 million US dollars at current exchange rates) to 3.48 billion meticais, which denotes a growth of 46.4 percent.
Researchers concluded that Mozambique Leaf Tobacco was classified in 2008, by the Institute for the Promotion of Exports (IPEX), as the greatest export, if one excludes the mega-projects.
