Cuba tobacco plantations face uphill struggle followng unexpected winter rains

[FmGrowit]

Ivet Gonzalez

SAN JUAN Y MARTÍNEZ, Cuba, Thursday March 6, 2014, IPS -

Near the close of the harvest, local people in the Cuban municipality of San Juan y Martínez, which boasts the finest tobacco plantations in the world, are seeing their hopes of a plentiful season dashed by unexpected winter rains."It's been a bad year, a rebellious one as we call it. There was a lot of rain, which rots the plants. Tobacco needs sun during the day and cold at night," 67-year-old Dámaso Rodríguez, a worker on the Valle plantation in this municipality, 180 kilometres west of Havana, in the province of Pinar del Río, told IPS.


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[Knucklehead]

I hope the curing tobacco doesn't mold and compound the problem.

 

[jekylnz]

That'll put prices up to..

 

[ArizonaDave]

The Dominican Republic is in close proximity, I'm wondering if they're experiencing the same trouble? ~~Sorry, older thread. Let me re-word this: Is the Piloto Cubano effected this year in 2014?
I guess I'm wondering if it's going to be a "hard to get" item this year.

 

[FmGrowit]

I have no idea about this years crop, but I have a bale of Cubano Piloto Seco from the original farm coming in tomorrow.