lizmachin Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 And if they had the fertiliser and were allowed to trade then it still could be. I'd quite like to buy tobacco direct from Zimbabwe, however, I'd be breaking many many laws. I can buy tobacco from Zimbabwe, but it will cost me a lot more than they would sell it for, and the farmer would get a lot less too. My father was a tobacco broker in Zimbabwe before he was forced out by Mugabe. The farms would produce and store huge crops of tobacco and sell it to the world through an efficient infrastructure. That infrastructure was deliberately destroyed and most of the white farmers harvested crops burned in the barns after harvest. Many of the farms have been broken up and land is not used as the likelyhood of harvesting a crop is remote. What tobacco crops remains are poor quality grown in small amounts that are largely not worth grading, even if there was an infrastructure to market it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 No. I enjoy carving out a pumpkin and having a bonfire. Your leader has all the qualifications, he has a face like a pumpkin, and is making a bonfire of all morality in parliament, so you are in the ball park there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 But we import it by buying it...we dont import it for free.... So where does our money go? or what does it go on? Aviation fuel mainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Your leader has all the qualifications, he has a face like a pumpkin, and is making a bonfire of all morality in parliament, so you are in the ball park there. Great isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 My father was a tobacco broker in Zimbabwe before he was forced out by Mugabe. The farms would produce and store huge crops of tobacco and sell it to the world through an efficient infrastructure. That infrastructure was deliberately destroyed and most of the white farmers harvested crops burned in the barns after harvest. Many of the farms have been broken up and land is not used as the likelyhood of harvesting a crop is remote. What tobacco crops remains are poor quality grown in small amounts that are largely not worth grading, even if there was an infrastructure to market it. As long as Mugabe and his friends have full bellies they care nothing about their country, or the people of it. It is the same with all 3rd world and muslim countries. The leaders are fat, the rest starve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Great isn't it. It certainly is, I have found out today that I am fireproof from all his cuts. I work under PFI which is ring fenced from all his austerity. I will be laughing, while you trail to the dole office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I may get a pumpkin I may even carve it and use it as a lantern but afterwards it's going in a curry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 They could be growing wheat to feed Englishmen. Is there summat about digestive system of English lasses that means they can't eat wheat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Well, a lot of people around here say it causes flatulence. - But I suspect that's due more to the yeast than the wheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 "Haloween"? Isn't tha' a ring o' bright light arooound the heed o' a wee jock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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