{"id":146497,"date":"2026-02-20T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146497"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:00:09","slug":"china-helps-zimbabwe-grow-us1-2-billion-tobacco-crop-amid-debt-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146497","title":{"rendered":"China helps Zimbabwe grow US$1.2 billion tobacco crop amid debt, health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDriven by Chinese demand, Zimbabwe produced a record 352.7 million kilograms of tobacco \u2013 valued at about US$1.2 billion \u2013 in last year\u2019s marketing season.<br \/>\nThis represents a major turnaround for an industry that, if not for Chinese investment, would have nearly collapsed two decades ago, although it remains a crop of concern for health campaigners.<br \/>\nAs Zimbabwe\u2019s largest agricultural export and a primary foreign currency earner, tobacco dominates its trade with Beijing. Last year, China imported&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3343817\/china-helps-zimbabwe-grow-us12-billion-tobacco-crop-amid-debt-health-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDriven by Chinese demand, Zimbabwe produced a record 352.7 million kilograms of tobacco \u2013 valued at about US$1.2 billion \u2013 in last year\u2019s marketing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}