Drought reduced the crop of "virginia" by 30%
Thursday, 01.01.1970.
12:36
According to the inhabitants of Maradik, who grow American tobacco "virginia", currently the most demanded tobacco on this market, on more than 200 yokes in the village, this-year tobacco crop, of which picking is on its peak, will be smaller by about 30%.
Maradik is, by the way, place in Municipality of Inđija that is famous for tobacco production. Fifteen years ago, nobody here was even thinking about dealing with production of this culture.
However, since the market was in shortage of "virginia" tobacco, manufacturers quickly organized themselves and calculated that that could be a profitable plant. That is how mass planting began. Today Maradik has 16 large tobacco manufacturers, which hire certain number of inhabitants for picking.
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