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At the peak of global tobacco production, there were 20 million rural Chinese households producing tobacco on 2.1 million hectares of land. [12] The vast majority of tobacco production is intended for the national market. While it is the major crop for millions of Chinese farmers, growing tobacco is not as profitable as cotton or sugar cane.
Until recently, shade-tobacco fields and drying sheds were visible to travelers on the road to and from Bradley International Airport, a major Connecticut airport. Connecticut shade tobacco is grown under tents to protect plant leaves from direct sunlight. This imitates the conditions of tobacco plants growing in the shade of trees in tropical ...
Nicotiana tabacum, or cultivated tobacco, is an annually grown herbaceous plant of the genus Nicotiana. N. tabacum is the most commonly grown species in the genus Nicotiana, as the plant's leaves are commercially harvested to be processed into tobacco for human use.
Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the tobacco genus Nicotiana , native to the Andes region in Argentina and Bolivia, in South America.
Tobacco farming was once a common crop in the South with thousands of farms. The end of federal support and less demand has almost erased the crop.
Although tobacco growers have soured on burley grown for cigarettes, those who are remaining in the game are planting dark tobacco and selling to companies that produce smokeless tobacco products ...
Herbicide efficacy in weed management of tobacco seed beds. Tob. Res. 44(1): 34–37. Kumaresan, M., C.Chandarasekhararao and D. Damodar Reddy. 2019. Effect of methods of irrigation and dates of planting on the yield, economics and water use efficiency of hybrid chewing tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Tob. Res. 45(1): 48–55.
Less clear than the health impacts of tobacco use—though still concerning to many medical professionals—is the impact upon health and society at large of nicotine-only products, and the sheer preponderance and rapid growth of what is their relatively recent adoption for use: that is, nicotine-containing products which do not contain tobacco ...