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• Adios to tobacco in Granada 

Jump to full article: TypicallySpanish.com (blog), 2008-09-15
Author: h.b. - Sep 15, 2008 - 7

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The end of E.U. subsidies mean an end to the cultivation of the crop on the Granada vega.

More than 1,000 families on the Granada Vega will now have to look for a new source of income with the closure of the tobacco plantation in the area. It comes following the cutback of E.U. subsidies for the crop in the area.

It ends generations of ‘tabacoleras’ who had worked out an income on the plains of the province for more than a century.

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