Tobacco, the sixth largest cash crop grown in the United States, is cultivated in 21 States. The United States produces … 23 types of tobacco divided into eight major classes of tobacco. Tobacco is used for cigarettes, Cigars, chewing tobacco …, snuff, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own cigarettes. The United States is both the largest importer and exporter of tobacco …

The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 eliminated tobacco quotas and tobacco price supports and allowed … producers to plant any amount or type of tobacco regardless of geographic location. The authors found that flue-cured tobacco … producers made greater adjustments to their operations after the buyout than did burley tobacco producers. Flue-cured tobacco …

analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration …) when tobacco exports are falling is almost three times greater than the increase in GDP when exports are rising. Model …-based simulations indicate that variability in tobacco exports leads to slower economic growth because GDP falls by a relatively large …

Marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts and tobacco were a longstanding feature of U.S. farm policy …, from the 1930s until the Government enacted quota buyouts, in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco. Quota owners were … about structural changes at farm, regional, and marketwide levels. Since the buyouts, many peanut and tobacco farms have …

U.S. rice millers and repackagers distributed 33.7 million hundredweight (cwt) of rice in marketing year 1984/85 for … 1982/83, the previous survey year. About half of U.S. rice production is used domestically; the rest is exported. Rice … although reported rice shipments to the beer industry declined, use remained about the 'Jame. The sharp drop in U.S. rice …

During 1998-2002, India experienced record public surpluses of wheat and rice, sharply higher government grain subsidy … outlays, and declining per capita consumption of wheat and rice. By 2006, despite continued high subsidies and sluggish …

Even though farming accounts for only about 1 percent of the total national workforce, it is at the core of the food … farming, including feed, seed, fertilizer, machinery, food processing, manufacturing, and exporting. The interrelationships …