Uganda’s forest cover fast dying out as tobacco industry booms
Uganda’s tobacco industry is big. In 2009, the country exported 32,000 tons of tobacco leaves which fetched $57 million in revenue. The previous year, the industry exported 29,042 tons fetching $66 million. Photo/FILE
Uganda’s tobacco industry is spawning an environmental disaster, as farmers turn to fruit trees for wood fuel to cure the tobacco leaves.
Driving through tobacco growing areas, outside the Murchison Falls National Park one barely encounters natural forests.
