CORESTA Congress, Berlin, 2016, Plenary Session, IG 01
Enhancing sustainability in tobacco production: energy efficient curing barn development for smallholder growers in Zimbabwe
(1) Tobacco Research Board, Harare, Zimbabwe; (2) Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
MMost of the over 70 000 tobacco growers in Zimbabwe are small scale tobacco growers who rely on wood-fuelled old conventional barns. However, these barns are inefficient, with Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) ratio as high as 14 kg wood. This level...