Reduction of the Brazilian harvest tobacco for 2015/16. This is the result of the meetings held between Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30, at the headquarters of Afubra in Santa Cruz do Sul, between the entities representing tobacco growers and tobacco industries. The estimated reduce by 12% the production of Virginia variety and up to 20%, the production of Burley.
Thus, for 2015/16, the estimated production is increased to 607 010 tons of tobacco produced in the three southern states of Brazil – (529,415 of Virginia, Burley and 66,586 11,010 Common) – against the estimated production current crop, which is 695,850 tons (601,610 of Virginia, Burley and 83,230 Common 11,010).
The orientation of the entities to tobacco growers is to reduce their acreage so you can tailor production to demand. ‘We call meetings with industries into revealing their production intentions. And, according to each of them, will be reduced or at best maintenance area. But we can not let the tobacco farmer to plant and when to start marketing industries claiming not have the market ‘, out on behalf of the commission’s president Afubra Benício Albano Werner.
Another recommendation is the representation of growers to invest in tobacco quality. ‘By reducing the area the producer can devote even more to the product and invest in the quality of it, which will give the tobacco farmer one the most competitive at the time of sale’ means Werner.
Source: Folha do Mate
