MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s tobacco curing season in the South, and the sheriff’s office in Montgomery County is making sure the region’s newest neighbors know. Tobacco barns across the ...

On September 6, 1856, Abisha Slade of Caswell County spoke at an agricultural meeting about “the new process of curing yellow tobacco.” The talk reflected an agricultural breakthrough that had been ...

Around this time of year, first responders have been used to receiving an influx of calls for tobacco barn fires. As the tobacco harvest has gotten into full swing, people may see smoke coming out of ...

Cheatham County tobacco farmer Jason Barnett raises tobacco on the same land as his grandparents. He fires tobacco in some of the same barns they used. And some of the tobacco is even staked on ...

SWABI: Four furnaces (bathas) of Virginia tobacco situated in different villages caught fire, reducing leaves, which were under curing process, to ashes, and inflicting huge financial losses over ...

SWABI: Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) has introduced a modern way of curing Virginia tobacco on an experimental basis in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. PTC officials on condition of anonymity ...

It’s hard for anyone who was not brought up in tobacco country to understand how a dominant crop could define an area’s culture. But this has been true of Calvert County for more than 400 years. From ...

Dark-fired tobacco, a lucrative crop used for pipe tobacco and cigars, has long been a lifeline for farmers in Robertson County, Tennessee. Despite its profitability, tobacco farming is facing ...

THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has launched a nationwide fire prevention campaign to protect fast-growing tree woodlots used in tobacco curing as Zimbabwe enters the 2025 fire season.

It's not only the citizens but Karnataka's forests too that are bearing the brunt of tobacco cultivation.Around 7,00,000 tonnes of fuel wood is extracted from trees to cure tobacco leaves, causing the ...