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Las Tunas toward an Efficient Tobacco Campaign 

After the sowing of some one thousand hectares this month, the tobacco planters of the eastern province of Las Tunas advance toward an efficient campaign, in which they have foreseen to harvest one thousand tons of dry tobacco.

They expect to obtain yields of a ton per hectare, superiors to those reached in the last five years, for that reason they have as a priority the careful agricultural treatment to the sowed areas.

It is significant because those more than 400 producers of Las Tunas, some 690 kilometers of Havana, had to carry out an extraordinary effort to reach their plantation goal and to repair the houses to cure the leaves, damaged by the hurricanes Ike and Paloma last September and November, reports the Cuban News Agency.

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