Tobacco Commission (TC) has lamented that continuous loans that farmers acquire to grow the crop is one of the biggest problems that is keeping a large number of growers from developing.

TC Chief Executive Officer Chidanti Malunga, while explaining some of the struggles that tobacco farmers encounter singled out perpetual loans that farmers get under contract farming as a downside to their benefits.

“It’s the loans, they are perpetually on loans, some of these loans they can do without such as loans to purchase trees which they buy every year,” Malunga said.

In light of this he says that farmers need to break this cycle if most farmers are to start making headway from their toils.

As such he has said that the TC is working towards undoing this process in order to help farmers who sometimes seem to have no choice but to take loans.

He Said: “We want to remove this we want to lessen the burden that the grower has on all these things.”