Africa’s top tobacco grower is poised to take its place as one of the leading tobacco-growing nations in the world. However, farmers who work on contract farming schemes dominated by Chinese companies ...

HADLEY — Nick Uchneat has spent the summers farming tobacco since he was 9 years old. He initially started by tagging along with his close friend, whose father Paul Jekanowski owns Jekanowski Farm, ...

When Grant Jeffrey Garst was in high school, he started doing just what his daddy and grandfather had done before him: growing tobacco. Now he’s 28 years old with a wife, an 18-month-old daughter, and ...

Dark-fired tobacco, a lucrative crop used for pipe tobacco and cigars, has long been a lifeline for farmers in Robertson County, Tennessee. Despite its profitability, tobacco farming is facing ...

Currently, top producers of tobacco are China (39.6%), India (8.3%), Brazil (7.0%) and the United States (4.6%), yet over 120 countries produce such crops, over an area estimated to be of 4 million ...

HARARE — Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to $1 billion in revenue. But though the crop is one of the ...

Tobacco farming in the U.S., mainly concentrated in North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, in order of production, is on the decline due to changing habits, overseas competition and other ...