The Chairman of the Tobacco Stakeholders in Chunya District, Mbeya Region, Cuthberth Mwinuka, has urged tobacco farmers to ...

Besides, 2,068 suspected ganja beedis, 55 packets of tobacco, 113.31 grams of suspected brown sugar, 14.21 grams of hashish oil, 20.03 grams of heroin, and five ganja plants were seized.

The researchers tested their patches on live, healthy soybean and tobacco plants and compared them to stressed bacteria-infected plants. They found: For both crops infected with the bacterial pathogen ...

Resurrection plants like Selaginella lepidophylla can survive months of drought (Credit: Alamy) To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of ...

This sensor measures hydrogen peroxide, a marker of stress in soybean and tobacco plant leaves. Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.4c02645 Plants send distress signals when ...

British American Tobacco has invested €4.7 million in a biomass-fuelled heating plant at its cigarette factory in Kanfanar, Croatia aiming to cut the factory's CO2 emissions by 65%, reported See News.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A collapse in tobacco excise has blown a $31 billion hole in the budget bottom line as new documents reveal the federal Treasury was ...

A new multimillion-dollar tobacco waste processing plant in Harare, backed by an Indian investor, is set to significantly boost the country's economy and provide additional income for farmers.

Tobacco, once vilified for its deadly impact, is now being reimagined as a foundation for pharmaceutical innovation. Scientists are harnessing genetic engineering to transform this plant into a ...

Tobacco became a panacea in 16th century Europe, prescribed for almost everything. The most bizarre application, however, would probably be as a cure for symptoms of drowning in the 18th century.

This is where tobacco could make a difference. Much like the recombinant cells we currently use, plants can also be genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals. Plants, however, only need ...

South Africa’s largest cigarette manufacturer, British American Tobacco (BAT), says allocating additional funding to the South African Revenue Service (Sars) will allow it to recover uncollected ...