ZACA urges the Zambian government to support alternatives to tobacco growing.
The Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA) urges the government to go for diversification. The government should restructure the Tobacco Board of Zambia which is the state agency for the control of tobacco production in the country. The Tobacco Board should develop alternatives to tobacco growing instead of supporting the tobacco sector.
ZACA names Brazil as an example: There, the organisation says, tobacco growers started cultivating maize, cassava and citrus fruits.
Read the complete article in the Zambia Daily Mail1.
- The article is undated, but the tobacco resource center tobacco.org dates it as of January 30, 2012. ↩