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Jump to full article: The Australian (au), 2008-09-02
Author: From correspondents in Havana * September 02, 2008
Intro: HURRICANE Gustav damaged 100,000 homes and devastated schools, power supplies and tobacco crops in western Cuba, officials said today . . . .
In a blow to the key tobacco industry, more than 3,414 fragile warehouses were also destroyed, said Olga Tapia, first secretary of the Communist Party in Pinar del Rio, adding that heavy rains had soaked 906 tons of tobacco leaves.
Ms Tapia said the leaves could be dried out but did not give a value for the estimated damage to the harvest.
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