The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Honourable Kondwani Nankhumwa, MP, on Thursday, September 26, 2019, officially opened an international Tobacco Coalition (T5) Workshop at Ufulu Gardens Hotel in the capital city, Lilongwe.
‘T5’ is a grouping of tobacco industry stakeholders from Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Delegates from these countries are attending the workshop in Malawi to discuss some of the challenges facing the leaf tobacco sector and to collectively find a way “to address them in the most satisfactory way”, according to the minister, who noted that “sharing information is important to take the right decisions,” in the wake of the international anti-smoking lobby.
Addressing the participants, the minister said Malawians were proud to host the workshop, which, takes great significance and symbolism as this is where decisions taken will affect tobacco producing countries and influence the way they are seen globally.