Cuban Tobacco Sowing Begins Earlier

Source from:  Prensa Latina (cu)  12/19/2012

Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban growers in this province, famous for its excellent tobacco, bring forward the sowing season in the well-known meadow of Vueltabajo, during the crucial stage of the campaign.

The farmers of this territory, the largest producer of this leaf in the country, planted about 12.000 hectares, 85 percent of the plan, told Prensa Latina the delegate of agriculture Rogelio Iglesias.

Regarding the new technologies applied in the tobacco areas, he informed the farmers use modernized stonemasons, created to bring the seeds to grow-plots. This way they get more than 10.000 shoots in 20 square meters instead of 3.000

The double row is another method widespread in the province designed to multiply the yields per hectare, a challenge of this contest.

At a distance of 140 kilometers from Havana, Vueltabajo brings a significant volumes of the binders, fillers and layers used to do the famous Cuban cigars. Enditem