Majority of farmers have left tobacco farming and have gone in for alternative crops. PHOTO I FILE
What you need to know:
Tanzania after becoming signatory to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first international treaty adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2003 on controlling the tobacco epidemic, tobacco control activist Lutgard Kagaruki proposed to discourage tobacco cultivation by promoting alternative crops in tobacco growing areas, with the main objective of ‘saving lives of Tanzanians, specifically the farmers’.
