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• Tobacco Farmers Deplete Trees 

Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2008-11-18
Author: Frank Mugabi Kampala / New Vision (Kampala)

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THE cutting of trees for tobacco-curing, and charcoal-burning have contributed to the depletion of trees in West Nile, the Arua district forest officer, Edison Adiribo, has said.

He said tobacco, the region's major cash crop, requires large quantities of wood fuel to cure, and has forced farmers to indiscriminately cut down trees.

Adiribo was speaking at the launch of an agro-forestry project in Arua town on Saturday.

The project is a partnership between the Nile Trans-boundary Environmental Action Project under the Nile Basin Initiative and Arua Rural Community Development.

It promotes afforestation and cultivation of red bird chili as an alternative income source for tobacco farmers in Arua and Maracha/Terego districts.

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