Farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa's largest tobacco producer, are predicting a sharp decline in harvests and quality. This is due to a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather ...

HARARE, ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests ...

Andrew Ciaglo “spears” the tobacco leaves as part of an assembly line to rival Motor City. “We all grew up together,” said Jeff Sadlowski, 60, the patriarch of the tobacco harvesting operation. Jeff ...

Tobacco used to be king in Vernon County where we live. Dairy farming was the main source of income on most farms, but the tobacco crop helped pay the taxes and, in many cases, paid off the mortgage.

HAVANA, March 23 (Reuters) - Cuba´s Pinar del Rio province, renowned for its luxuriuosly smooth tobacco, is heading towards its worst harvest ever, state run media reported late on Wednesday. The ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Tom Lee doesn’t want the Mountain Empire’s tobacco history to go up in smoke. That’s why this associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University has launched a ...

On a recent July morning, Dwight Arnold stood in front of one of his Connecticut shade tobacco fields, the plants shielded from the sun by a white shade cloth, barking orders to the mix of men and ...

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. – Like his big brother before him, Gabino Luna crossed the Mexican border illegally at age 16 and made his way to rural Macon County because he heard there was work to be found in ...

It s harvest time in much of the nation s tobacco patches and this year s harvest is expected to be among the smallest in at least a decade. Farmers are expected to produce 726 million pounds of ...