The cultivation of tobacco is the agricultural cultivation of tobacco as a useful plant for the production the sheets dried harvested of raw tobacco from and, partly also from the whole plants. Because of the large adaptability of the subtropical plant tobacco to into the moderate zones by 38"° southern latitude to 56"° of northern length is cultivated. The most important cultivation areas are north, central and South America, China, Southeast Asia, Anterior Asia/the Balkans and Europe.

The tobacco differs from other useful plants by a very high work expended in the cultivation. Thus not directly on the field one sows, but first in separate seed patches to the Setzlingsanzucht. The Setzlinge is pikiert after approximately two weeks and 6-8 weeks after sowing on the field are expenditure-planted. After several care steps such as heels, heads (remove the bloom conditions) and Geizen (remove the side impulses) three months can mature later the lowest 3-4 sheets to be harvested. This procedure is repeated over 4-6 weeks, until all usable sheets are abgeerntet.

Until the end of the 60's also the private cultivation of tobacco was in Germany quite common. Some decades into oblivion this straight with rising fiscal charges is come on tobacco products again up-to-date. The production of smokable tobacco is labor intensive and rather as hobby (hobby) attractive.

The cultivation of tobacco in Europe is promoted annually by the European Union with subsidies of 2 billion euro. Of it approximately 150 million euro are void to the cultivation of tobacco in Germany. Since 2005 is however 20 per cent of the subsidies granted so far purposefully is used to encourage the tobacco farmers for transferring to other products. In Austria for example it led to the fact that according to a press release in the year 2005 all remaining, approx. 70 tobacco farmers stopped their enterprise.

The campaign smoke victim has to be cleared up it made the task over the consequences of the cultivation of tobacco in Africa. Thus to plant the Miombo drying forest in increasing measure gerodet around tobacco, to dry but above all also around tobacco. The tobacco plant in furnaces dried which expresses to be inefficiently beaconed. For drying a ton tobacco it needs on average 150 tons wood this is only a small example, it smoke victim and smoke victim are referred to ARTE >.

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