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Daily Monitor
Thursday December 31 2020
A man clears weeds from his tobacco garden in Owaffa village in Arua in 2015. More than 800 tobacco farmers are demanding payment from Continental Tobacco Company Uganda Ltd. PHOTO | FELIX WAROM OKELLO
Summary
The coordinator of the affected farmers in Maracha District, Mr Christopher Adia, on Tuesday said: “In 2018, we signed a contract with Continental Tobacco Company Uganda Ltd to grow tobacco. We sold the tobacco that year and the same thing happened in 2019. But up to now our money has not been paid.”
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More than 800 tobacco farmers who grew and sold tobacco to the Continental Tobacco Company Uganda Ltd between 2018 and 2019 are demanding payment of upto Shs9 billion.