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What issues are affecting County tobacco farmers?

April 26, 2017County farmers tobacco

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What issues are affecting County tobacco farmers?

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All tobacco producers are being faced with a declining demand product. Recent governmental and consumer litigation against the tobacco industry has led to a drastic reduction in the amount of tobacco an individual farmer can produce. Franklin county producers can only plant 56 percent of the tobacco they planted in 1997. This tremendous reduction in income has placed much hardship on county tobacco producers.