(Ecofin Agency) – In Zimbabwe, the executive plans to substitute cooking gas for wood for drying tobacco leaves, the country’s main cash crop, reports Bloomberg. This initiative is part of a strategy to curb deforestation.
To this end, the tobacco office wants to set up a tobacco drying plant using cooking gas as fuel as of the next campaign. According to Chelesani Moyo, spokesperson for the public body, the facility will process tobacco from a 50-hectare plantation in its experimental phase.
In Zimbabwe, the executive estimates that the tobacco industry contributes to the destruction of an area of forest comprising between 40,000 and 52,000 hectares each year.
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