BAT farmers drop 20pc on reduced sales

Tobacco farmers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Tobacco famers under British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya dropped 20 percent last year, the firm says in latest annual filing to shareholders, citing reduced domestic sale of cigarettes.

Contracted leaf farmers fell to about 4,000 from about 5,000 in prior two years as the UK-controlled multinational sought to “right-size crop” supply in line with consumer demand.

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