As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying … alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota … program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for …

The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the … Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products …. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a result, it is not apparent what it does mean to tobacco growers. However …

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 …

Three representative Tennessee tobacco farms are used to estimate farm-level impacts of (1) program continuation with …

In a long term study the effects of a nematicide and six rotations: root-knot-susceptible tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum L …. cv.„KM10‟ grown continuously (ContKM10), root-knot-resistant tobacco cv. „RK8‟ grown continuously (ContRK8), grass … was ethylene dibromide (EDB) and was applied to each tobacco crop, as is standard practice. Chloris gayana cv. „Rhodes …

.S. tobacco farmers' productivity to the quota buyout of 2004. We isolate the impact of distortionary policy, i.e., the tobacco … contribution of reallocation of resources among tobacco growers. Reallocation of resources includes entry into and exit from … tobacco farming, as well as growth or decline of the resources allocated to existing tobacco farms. We find that aggregate …

. ----------------------------------------------The paper analyzes the specificities and competitive strategies of the tobacco productive arrangement in the Vale do Rio … Pardo region, located in Rio Grande do Sul State. Historically, the tobacco productive chain generates dynamism in the local … economy. However, with the growing of anti-tobacco campaigns and the signature of international traits related to the control …

proposition method to value the diversification polices in the tobacco areas. It is a drawing in reply about the comparative … tobacco reconversion method demanded from the Convention of the Parts Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). So, first … promotion. Next, it talks about tobacco's economical presence in the World and Brazil and it describes public politics that …

access to credit from formal sources, and tobacco plot size, on cost inefficiency among Malawian smallholder tobacco … measure of an exogenous credit constraint than credit program participation or actual loan uptake. It is found that tobacco …