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Cuba Moves to Rebuild Hurricane-Hammered Tobacco Industry
More than 590 brigades of farmers and agricultural workers from all over the island will arrive in Cuba’s western-most province today to help with the rebuilding of tobacco - curing sheds, which were recently razed by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
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More than 590 brigades of farmers and agricultural workers from all over the island will arrive in Cuba’s western-most province today to help with the rebuilding of tobacco - curing sheds, which were recently razed by hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
Nidia Garcia, with the executive board of the Tobacco Growers National Union, told ACN that the groups making up a total of 3,552 workers will be arriving in tobacco-rich Pinar del Rio province from Tuesday through Sunday.
Garcia said the volunteers will be working in fields across the province, where they will remain until December, when the sheds should be ready to house the January harvest.
The brigades include carpenters and assistants with expertise in building quality tobacco-curing sheds.
Some 30,000 sheds were recently damaged across the area; in these, harvested tobacco leafs are hung, dried, cured – processes that are vital to guarantee the high quality of Cuban cigars.
Pinar del Rio is par excellence the land of Cuban cigars, which were first consumed by indigenousness peoples across the island before the discovery of the island by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
Nidia Garcia, with the executive board of the Tobacco Growers National Union, told ACN that the groups making up a total of 3,552 workers will be arriving in tobacco-rich Pinar del Rio province from Tuesday through Sunday.
Garcia said the volunteers will be working in fields across the province, where they will remain until December, when the sheds should be ready to house the January harvest.
The brigades include carpenters and assistants with expertise in building quality tobacco-curing sheds.
Some 30,000 sheds were recently damaged across the area; in these, harvested tobacco leafs are hung, dried, cured – processes that are vital to guarantee the high quality of Cuban cigars.
Pinar del Rio is par excellence the land of Cuban cigars, which were first consumed by indigenousness peoples across the island before the discovery of the island by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.