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Harare seeking $1.5bn to help save more than a quarter of the population from starving to death, as drought worsens.
Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers hit by drought
Farmers join millions struggling to make money as country sees record-low rainfall.
23 Apr 2016
Southern Africa is facing one of the worst ever droughts because of El Nino conditions as record-low rainfall has made it difficult for farmers to yield their crops.
Annual tobacco production in Zimbabwe is expected to fall by 15 percent because of the drought.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from the capital Harare.
Source: Al Jazeera
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