WHITE BURLEY – INDIA
October 1st, 2003
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
WHITE burley tobacco cultivation by tribal farmers in the Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, is rebounding after years of decline because of DDT usage harming crop quality. With the insecticide being abandoned, Someswara Rao, of the Maddi Lakshmaiah tobacco exporter group, is predicting the districts' plantations of the variety would now grow from 18,000 to 20,000 acres.
WHITE burley tobacco cultivation by tribal farmers in the Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, is rebounding after years of decline because of DDT usage harming crop quality. With the insecticide being abandoned, Someswara Rao, of the Maddi Lakshmaiah tobacco exporter group, is predicting the districts' plantations of the variety would now grow from 18,000 to 20,000 acres.
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