Zimbabwe tobacco farmers prosper through Chinese-funded project

44-year-old Cloudy Nyakonda now manages a 150-hectare tobacco farm in one of Africa's prime tobacco-growing fields, Zimbabwean, employs 250 long-term workers and generatesan annual turnover of 2 million U.S. dollars.

He started off from humble beginnings, growing only two hectares of tobacco and another two hectares of maize. But all things change in 2007 when Officials from a Chinese tobacco companyTianze Tobacco Company (PVT) Limited came to knock on his doors.