tobacco farming
Growing smokable crops
Tobacco farming is the cultivation and harvesting of tobacco plants for commercial use.
The crop requires intensive labor—planting, topping, suckering, and curing the leaves.
Tobacco farming has shaped economies and landscapes, particularly in the American South: His family had been in tobacco farming for generations.
The work is notoriously demanding, with harvest season requiring long hours in humid fields.
- cash cropsPlants grown for profit
- plant diseasesIllnesses affecting vegetation
- slaveryOwnership of people
- seedbed preparationSoil conditioning before sowing
- pest controlManaging unwanted organisms
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- Ilocosempanada, garlic festival, Ferdinand Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Burgos
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, crop yields
- American Farmingfamily farms, corn, wheat, hay, farmsteads
- KentuckyLouisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Kentucky Derby, bourbon
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Growing edible plant products
food production · vegetable farming · grain farming · subsistence farming · wheat farming
tobacco farmingfood production
Creating consumable provisions
subsistence farming · grain farming · dairy farming · livestock farming · rice cultivation
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Farming preserving long-term productivity
ethical farming · organic farming · regenerative farming · permaculture · agroecology