Penalty for unregistered delivery

tobacco farmers have continued to deliver their crop without booking first despite the decentralisation of booking and registration to provinces. TIMB board chairperson, Mrs Monica Chinamasa announced the penalty this week. The move, she said, will force farmers to book and register. Farmers who bring their crop without booking increase congestion. The growers may also be forced to stay longer at the auction floors either waiting to register or to sell their crop. A number of farmers fail to register not because they are not aware of the nearest registration offices but because they don’t have the money. These farmers end up registering and booking on stop order facilities where the money will be deducted after their crop was sold.