Zimbabwean farmers hope for whiff of cannabis boom
In 2018, the southern African country became one of the first on the continent to legalise the production of dagga for medicinal purposes, hoping for a fresh income stream of badly needed export dollars, and has so far issued 57 licences.
The global cannabis industry could be worth $272 billion by 2028, according to Barclays analysts, and Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has said the country wants at least $1 billion of that – more than it currently makes from tobacco, its top agricultural export. Zimbabwe is Africa’s biggest tobacco producer.Zimbabwean officials also recognise the need to diversify away from the addictive nicotine that has proven to be ruinous to the health of smokers and those around them.
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