The sustainability of the local tobacco industry continues to be threatened by illicit cigarette trade.
AECI Plant Health, part of #OneAECIForABetterWorld, joined stakeholders at a tobacco day recently hosted by Limpopo Tobacco Processors in Rustenburg in support of South Africa's struggling tobacco producers.
The banning of cigarettes during the Covid-19 pandemic opened the floodgates for the illegal cigarette trade in South Africa.