Officials and experts in Namibia are fighting tooth and nail with the Zambezi region project. Officials stated that the country has seen a lot of uncommunicable diseases like cancer which are likely to be caused by smoking tobacco. They also aired out issues to do with desertification caused by farming tobacco.
One expert,Rod Davis recommended a technique called Alley Cropping, where strips of natural forest or bush are left to minimise deforestation. http://www.namibiansun.com/agriculture/tobacco-expert-slams-plantation-plan.77461
People are now taking tobacco farming as a form of poverty eradication because there is a lot of unemployment and tobacco sells fast.The Minister of Health and Social Services Richard Kamwi has also
rejected the idea of a tobacco plantation, while youth land activists
have lodged an official objection.http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail
A Chinese company (Namibia Oriental Tobacco cc) has been given the green light to establish a N$1 billion tobacco and maize plantation in the region. The 3000 people to be employed at the project will be exposed to drugs and might end up smoking. The director of the forestry in agriculture said the country will not clear land for such a project.
Many fear that it will have a negative impact on the environment therefore Zimbabwean expertise is needed because they are one of the major tobacco exporters in the world.
Chinese
company, Namibia Oriental Tobacco cc, has applied for 10 000 hectares in
Zambezi for growing tobacco and maize. Last week, the Ministry of Lands
and Resettlement carried an advertisement calling for objections to the
Chinese company's application for land at Liselo - See more at:
http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail#sthash.QIGrxTPz.dpuf
Tobacco farmers. http://www.namibiansun.com/agriculture/tobacco-expert-slams-plantation-plan.77461 
Benson Ntomwa said Namibia has seen an increase in non-communicable diseases like cancer which can be caused by smoking. - See more at: http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail#sthash.QIGrxTPz.dpuf
Benson Ntomwa said Namibia has seen an increase in non-communicable diseases like cancer which can be caused by smoking. - See more at: http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail#sthash.QIGrxTPz.dpufN
Namibia
has seen an increase in non-communicable diseases like cancer which can
be caused by smoking. - See more at:
http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail#sthash.QIGrxTPz.dpuf
Namibia
has seen an increase in non-communicable diseases like cancer which can
be caused by smoking. - See more at:
http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=24324&page_type=story_detail#sthash.QIGrxTPz.dpuf
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