Thursday, September 6, 2012

Cuba Starts Tobacco Harvest in Robaina Plantations



Pinar del Río, Cuba, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) Tobacco growers in Vueltabajo, cradle to the best tobacco, will start tomorrow by watering the seedbeds as they initiate the 2012 campaign.
Labors will extend to all fields dedicated to that crop in the Pinar del Rio province, declared the Master in Science, Enrique Cruz, director of this sector in that western territory.
Watering of the seedlings precedes planting of this economically important crop, which will take place in the second half of October.
Known decades ago as Vueltabajo, Pinar del Rio contributes 70 percent of national production of the leaf that provide most of the covers used to roll the habanos or Havana cigars worthily considered the world's best. Continued

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