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Meanwhile, U.S. growers of a lighter variation of the golden leaf called flue-cured tobacco in areas like North Carolina and Virginia are forecast to produce more than 465 million pounds, up about 3 percent from last year.
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The idea of tobacco as a Virginia crop probably seems a little foreign to anybody from Albemarle County north, but burley and flue-cured tobacco have long been an economic staple in southwest and southside Virginia, respectively.
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In North Carolina, which produces two thirds of the country's flue-cured tobacco, the leafy crop pulled in $906 million last year -- almost eight times the amount earned by every vegetable grown in the state.
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(Burley growing west of the mountains, flue-cured to the east.)
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Experts expect some crops -- like the flue-cured tobacco that dominates North Carolina (which alone gets $4 billion) -- to grow from 300 million pounds to 450 or even 500 million pounds.
07/26/2004 2004
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Zimbabwe, the second largest supplier of flue-cured tobacco used in American-blend and other cigarettes on the international market after Brazil, sells most of its tobacco to the European Union and
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Sales of Zimbabwe's major export, Virginia flue-cured tobacco, officially closed Tuesday after fetching about US$114 million (€94 million) on a crop that was just a fraction of what was harvested before the seizure of 5,000 white owned commercial farms.
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In 2001, Zimbabwe which is the second largest supplier of flue-cured tobacco used in American-blend and other cigarettes on the international market after Brazil, with China third, produced
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Although producing only about five percent of the total world flue-cured Virginia tobacco, Zimbabwe is traditionally the second largest exporter of the leaf after Brazil on the international market.
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Last year Zimbabwe was the second largest supplier of flue-cured tobacco on the international market after Brazil.
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