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D-contract-floor Dictionary

Contract floor

A sales floor where contracted growers deliver to their merchant

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Plain meaning
A sales floor where contracted growers deliver to their merchant
How to use it
Deliver contracted tobacco to the merchant's floor.
South African benchmark
South Africa's small tobacco sector, about 170 growers, sells mainly under contract (Article 121).
Country notes
Zimbabwe's contract floors averaged US$2.55 per kg in 2026.
Go and read
M19-U2, C2 Lesson 2.3
Calculate it
T-M19-03 Contract Grower Income
Library sources
LIB-A019, LIB-P-Tobacco, LIB-P-Tobacco-IP
See also
Auction floor, Contract farming
Tobacco: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedTobacco: how the business runsSold bykg of cured leaf per hectare1Seedbed2Transplant3Reap leaves4Cure in barn5Auction or contract floorZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Tobacco Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M19 Tobacco.