烟草在线据《标准商务报》报道编译　　对于将于2月15日开始的2012年烟草销售季节，利益相关者预期烟草产量高，而且烟草质量好。

　　这些烟草将在4家拍卖场拍卖：烟草销售拍卖场、博卡烟草拍卖场和千年烟草拍卖场，以及总理烟草拍卖场（Premier Tobacco）。

　　烟草业的公司对《标准商务报》称，他们希望“国家的烟草产量更高，烟叶质量更好。”

　　津巴布韦进步烟草种植者联盟主席Nicholas Kapungu表示，在销售季节开始之前，该组织很乐观，因为所有成员将把作物以协商好的价格出售给单一买方——明星国际烟草公司。

　　“在我们栽培烟草之前，我们就同他们协商好了价格，价格很好，”他说。

　　Kapungu说，联盟将确保买家避免拥挤，而这是此前销售季节拍卖场的特点。

　　烟草业营销委员会承诺它已经做了工作，未来的销售季节不会拥堵。

　　Kapungu说，他的联盟有2.1万名农民会员，为5000名农民设法弄到了投入物资。每个农民获得了一公顷的投入物资。

　　Kapungu说，他的联盟已经组织了卡车把烟草从不同地区运到拍卖场。每个季节，农民都抱怨把烟叶运到拍卖场的运输成本太高，种植者说运输经营者压榨他们辛辛苦苦挣来的钱。

　　谈及白肋烟，Kapungu说，他的联盟已经找到了一个从明年开始购买他们作物的买家。这些买方将为白肋烟提供投入物资。

　　确保白肋烟一个外国买家的举措是烟草业的一个重大突破，因为在津巴布韦白肋烟营销拍卖场关闭后，这是种植者一直面临的问题。津巴布韦白肋烟营销拍卖场是针对白肋烟销售的拍卖场。

　　拥有津巴布韦白肋烟营销拍卖场的白肋烟种植者，在2010年把这个拍卖场出售给了卷烟制造商大草原烟草公司。

　　烟草业营销委员会表示,它预计买家在寻求进口烟草之前，会耗尽当地烟草的。受到拍卖场有利价格的推动，烟草产量在增加，但是还没有达到上一年的高点。

　　在2011烟草季中，出售了1.324亿公斤烟草，低于烟草业营销委员会制订的1.7亿公斤的目标。

　　去年烟草销售收入了3.615亿美元，而2010年收入了3.55亿美元。在顶峰时期，2000年津巴布韦生产了2.36亿公斤的烟草。

High Output Expected As Tobacco Selling Season Opens

The Standard
Jan 22, 2012

　　THE 2012 tobacco selling season opens on February 15 amid expectations from stakeholders of high output and quality crop.

　　The tobacco would be auctioned at four floors Tobacco Sales Floor, Boka Tobacco Floors, Millennium Tobacco and Premier Tobacco.

　　Players in the industry told Standardbusiness they hope for a "bit more in terms of national yield and better quality tobacco".

　　Zimbabwe Progressive Tobacco Farmers Union president, Nicholas Kapungu, told Standardbusiness that the organisation is optimistic ahead of the selling season, as all members will sell the crop to one buyer, Star International Tobacco, whom they have agreed with on prices.

　　"We agreed with them on the prices before we planted our tobacco and the price is good," he said.

　　Kapungu said the union had secured the buyer to avoid congestion which characterised floors the previous selling season.

　　Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) has already promised it has done its work and the coming selling season would be congestion- free.

　　Kapungu said his union has a membership of 21 000 farmers, but managed to secure inputs for 5 000 farmers. Each of the farmers was given inputs for one hectare.

　　Kapungu said his union had organised for trucks to deliver tobacco to the floors from the various districts. Every season, farmers complain of the high transport costs to the floor, with growers saying the transport operators were milking them of their hard-earned cash.

　　On burley tobacco, Kapungu said his union had identified a foreign buyer for their crop starting next year. The buyer will provide inputs for burley.

　　The move to secure a foreign buyer for burley is a major breakthrough in the tobacco industry as growers have been facing problems after the closure of Burley Marketing Zimbabwe (BMZ), an auction floor that was dedicated to the marketing of burley tobacco.

　　Burley tobacco growers who owned BMZ sold the floor to Savannah Tobacco, a cigarette manufacturing company, in 2010.

　　Timb has already said that it expects buyers to exhaust the local crop before it resorts to imports. Tobacco production is on the increase buoyed by favourable prices on the auction floor but it has not yet reached yesteryears' peak.

　　In the 2011 season, 132,4 million kg were sold below the 170 million kg output which had been projected by Timb.

　　It raked in US$361,5 million compared to the US$355,6 million realised in 2010. At its peak, Zimbabwe produced 236 million kg in 2000.