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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>JTI Leaf Malawi says despite the persisting Covid-19 pandemic, the company has managed to buy 40 million kilograms of tobacco this year. Addressing reporters from across the country during a virtual meeting on Wednesday JTI Leaf Malawi Corporate Affairs and Communications Director Limbani Kakhome said unlike last year, this year their growers were allowed to attend the sales with all covid-19 protocols observed.<\/p>\n

Kakhome said a total of 40 million kilograms of all types of tobacco were bought by the company in all the four tobacco marketing floors. \u201cJTI bought 40 million kilograms of Burley tobacco, the only variety the company buys. I would like to thank all our growers across Malawi for supplying us with high quality leaf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalawi continues to do well quality wise. Our quality index this year has also improved over the years and this is a manifestation that the extension services we are providing to our growers are bearing fruits,\u201d said Kakhome. He went on to say that due to Covid-19 protocols, leaf buying during the past two marketing seasons was accelerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. JTI Leaf Malawi says despite the persisting Covid-19 pandemic, the company has managed to buy 40 million kilograms of tobacco this year. Addressing reporters from across the country during a virtual meeting on Wednesday JTI Leaf Malawi Corporate Affairs and Communications Director Limbani Kakhome said unlike last year, this year their growers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,371,2167,1459,234,348],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-jti-malawi-limited","tag-limbani-kakhome","tag-malawi","tag-tobacco"],"yoast_head":"\nJTI Leaf Malawi buys 40 million KGs of Tobacco - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"JTI Leaf Malawi says despite the persisting Covid-19 pandemic, the company has managed to buy 40 million kilograms of to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JTI Leaf Malawi buys 40 million KGs of Tobacco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JTI Leaf Malawi says despite the persisting Covid-19 pandemic, the company has managed to buy 40 million kilograms of to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T22:17:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T22:29:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-6133f32727c72.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"468\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"JTI Leaf Malawi buys 40 million KGs of Tobacco\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-04T22:17:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-04T22:29:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\"},\"wordCount\":187,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-6133f32727c72.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"JTI Malawi Limited\",\"Limbani Kakhome\",\"Malawi\",\"tobacco\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/jti-leaf-malawi-buys-40-million-kgs-of-tobacco\",\"name\":\"JTI Leaf Malawi buys 40 million KGs of Tobacco - 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