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Fuel crisis worries tobacco sector

    JOHANNESBURG

    Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector warned on Wednesday that a similar acute fuel shortage was hindering the harvesting of the 1999/2000 crop. Tobacco accounts for an estimated 30 percent of Zimbabwe’s foreign exchange. Zimbabwe Tobacco Association Marketing Director Pat Davis was quoted as saying the harvesting was only half complete and that the producers still needed adequate supplies until March to “get the rest of the crop off the ground.”

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