Seedtime in Pinar del Rio tobacco nurseries

(Cubaheadlines via radiorebelde.icrt.cu) Seedtime in Pinar del Rio tobacco nurseriesPinar del Rio, Cuba. – Local tobacco growers of this territory, the highest producer of that leaf in Cuba, began to irrigate seedbeds. They want to plant early in order to attain the best possible yields.
Before doing this, tobacco growers prepared the soil and ensured the inputs required to achieve survival and high quality of the seedlings intended to cover over 16 400 hectares of this crop in the 2011–2012 campaign.
According to the schedule, they will start planting seedlings next October. Continued

Photo: Portrait of a man wearing a straw hat. Hand Colored Lantern Slide, Cuba, 1899 (The Field Museum).