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| | Tobacco: World Markets and Trade |
 | | The tobacco marketing assessment was announced on December 16, 1996 at.8105 cent per pound for each the producer and purchaser of 1997-crop flue-cured tobacco. |
 | | In the same year, the central region, around Lilongwe, produced 81,680 tons of tobacco, over 67 percent of the of total flue-cured and burley tobacco produced in Malawi, and the southern region produced 23,120 tons of tobacco, 19 percent of the total flue-cured and burley tobacco produced in Malawi. |
 | | Most of the tobacco exports in 1996, 80 percent or 82,000 tons, were of burley tobacco. |
| www.fas.usda.gov /tobacco/circular/1997/9702 (3105 words) |
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