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MOLDOVA: Tobacco Plantation Land To Tripple 

Jump to full article: seeurope.net (bg), 2004-04-06

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To improve the tobacco production sector, the land used should be not less than 15 thousand hectares. Last year, the plots with tobacco was only 5.4 thousand hectares, against 9.1 thousand ha in 2002. As a result, the gross production of green tobacco leaf shrank to only 60 thousand tons (almost 1.5 times less than 2002), and Moldovan tobacco-fermentation and cigarette factories were working with only 61 percent of their technical capacity.

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