Feature: Zimbabwean farmers beam with optimism as new tobacco marketing season begins


HARARE, March 11 (Xinhua) -- As a new marketing season dawned, Tendai Chimhondoro waited patiently for her golden leaf crop to go under the hammer in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare.

Chimhondoro, a 45-year-old small-scale farmer from Shamva in Mashonaland Central Province, has been selling tobacco at the auction floors since she started growing the cash crop three years ago.

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