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In addition to that, approximately 250,000 unregistered farmers are believed to have tobacco as their main crop. This makes Bangladesh the second largest tobacco producer in terms of workforce, just after China. It is also the third largest in terms of percentage of registered farm land dedicated to tobacco cultivation with 0.4%. [19]
Dwight Ware Watson (September 28, 1952 - December 7, 2024), dubbed the "Tractor Man" in the media, is a tobacco farmer from Whitakers, North Carolina, who, in March 2003, brought much of Washington, D.C. to a standstill for two days when he drove a tractor into the pond in the Constitution Gardens area of the National Mall and claimed to have explosives.
The tobacco economy in the colonies was embedded in a cycle of leaf demand, slave labor demand, and global commerce that gave rise to the Chesapeake Consignment System and Tobacco Lords. American tobacco farmers would sell their crops on consignment to merchants in London, which required them to take out loans for farm expenses from London ...
Like most members of her family living in Clover, Lacks worked as a tobacco farmer starting from an early age. She fed the animals, tended the garden, and toiled in the tobacco fields. She attended the designated black school two miles away from the cabin until she had to drop out to help support the family when she was in the sixth grade. [12]
Tobacco, one of the most widely used addictive substances in the world, [3] is a plant native to the Americas and historically one of the most important crops grown by American farmers. [4] More specifically, tobacco refers to any of various plants of the genus Nicotiana (especially N. tabacum) native to tropical America and widely cultivated ...
In Brazil, around 135,000 family farmers cite tobacco production as their main economic activity. [46] Tobacco has never exceeded 0.7% of the country's total cultivated area. [52] In the southern regions of Brazil, Virginia, and Amarelinho, flue-cured tobacco, as well as burley and Galpão Comum air-cured tobacco, are produced.
With a temporary lapse in tobacco exports to Europe, even more small farmers found themselves switching over to crops other than tobacco. In South Carolina , there was a shift toward rice plantations; while in other areas other sorts of much needed vegetation was grown for sustenance of the nation. [ 7 ]
The Story of Tobacco in America (UNC 1949) Robert, Joseph Clarke. "The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860 (Duke University Press, 1938). Tilley, Nannie May The Bright Tobacco Industry 1860–1929 ISBN 0-405-04728-2. online; Tilley, Nannie May The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (1985) online