Tobacco farmers have complained that some Tobacco Association of Malawi (Tama) Farmers Trust officers and transporters promise the farmers that tobacco will be sold quicker, at a fee.

President of the Trust, Abiel Kalima Banda, said that farmers lose money by giving bribes looking for favours. He further urged the farmers to not only report the corrupt officers and transporters, but name them also.

The above was addressed at the 2020 annual area meeting that took place at Mphomwa Tama Depot in Kasungu, which happened not long after embarking its first-round tobacco crop estimate survey, as confirmed by the commission’s corporate planning and development manager Hellings Nasoni.