Guest Opinion. The story of tobacco in colonial Virginia represents one of the earliest and most significant cases of ...

Tobacco became a cash crop for the colonists after only a short period of time, after the colonists realized that specialization was the way forward. Indentured labor and slaves to cultivate tobacco, ...

Value of other crops: 1934 1933 (000 omitted) Cotton $602,000 $611,000 Wheat 432,000 359,000 Barley 91,000 63,000 Tame Hay 724,000 536,000 Tobacco 240,000 ... include AAA cash benefits which ...

Cash crops, on the other hand, are grown primarily for commercial purposes, to be sold on the market for profit. These crops like cotton, coffee, sugarcane, and tobacco are cultivated for sale ...

large plots of land in historical tobacco regions have been left unused while also being unfit to grow other crops. Instead of growing low-value crops like hay on these lands, farmers could earn more ...

is readying the handover of a P100-million crop production aid for qualified tobacco farmers nationwide for cropping year (CY) 2024 – 2025. At least 16,666 tobacco farmers were identified as ...

PADUCAH, Ky., Sept. 28.--The frost this morning has done great damage to the tobacco crop in all the Kentucky purchase. About half of the crop, being still green, has been damaged in Graves ...