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Zimbabwe is gearing up to commission a fourth Green Leaf Threshing plant within the next 24 months to enhance tobacco processing and local value addition as it targets a record-breaking 400 million kg harvest.
“We are setting up the GLT in the next 24 months to ensure that we have got capacity…. According to the local content committee strategy, it is one of the strategies to eliminate the export of our raw tobacco,” said Mr. Hurbert Nyanhogo, a member of the Local Content Strategy Committee under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, during a recent conference on tobacco.
A GLT plant is where raw tobacco leaf is steamed, threshed, and separated into export-ready product. Without enough capacity, Zimbabwe has little choice but to continue exporting semi-processed or raw tobacco, losing out on downstream value.
The move aligns with Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Value Chain Transformation strategy, designed to shift reliance from raw leaf exports toward local beneficiation. Recently, local value-addition climbed from 8.8% in 2023 to ~10–15% in 2025, against a government target of 30%.
Value addition and local processing will add more jobs, forex retention, and resilience against demand shocks.
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