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Inspector General of Police Lextern Kachama has said the police are deploying 40 more law enforceers in the border districts...
Perhaps it’s time to start looking for other uses for the crop. South African Airways run the first ever flight powered by aviation fuel made from tobacco and the story is here: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/20/africa/tobacco-jets-south-africa. The company that makes the aviation fuel, SkyNRG, seems has plans to expand into other African countries including Malawi for the raw material but that obviously is in years to come and also depending on the success of the tests and adoption levels of airlines to the fuel. So there still could be hope yet for the crop but this is where research in our universities would… Read more »
Tobacco derived fuel poses a threat to the dominance of the oil and gas industry and the revenue and taxes it generates Oil and gas producing governments would be alarmed at the prospect of an alternative energy resource even if such a source might be environmentally more friendly and help lower greenhouse gases At least South African Airways has shown that there is an alternative use for tobacco and this would allow tobacco growing regions to sustain a rural population in situ instead of a rural migration trend into towns and cities with the added social and economic pressures on… Read more »