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Santiago dominates cultivation
posted on: Nov 22 2011 7:41 by RDugey. Viewed 28 times.
The executive director of the tobacco Institute (Intabaco), Lorenzo Fernandez, said that cultivation brings 84,210 direct in the Santiago province and near RD jobs $3 billion per year for sale at farm, processing, manufacturing, marketing and packaging.
It specified that between 250,000 and 214,000 people they depend on annually this crop for their livelihood.
Santiago province has 1,046,182 inhabitants, according to projections for 2010 for the National Bureau of statistics, and ranks first in the production, processing, processing and export of tobacco at Dominican Republic.
Added that the latest tobacco companies census that Santiago has 84% of the factories of cigarettes legally established in the country. The total number of existing factories are 49, of which 41 are located in Santiago province, and that of the 15 companies engaged in the processing and export of u000atobacco branch, 13 are located in Santiago, which represents 87%.
Lorenzo highlighted that this province has 2,470 producers (43 per cent of the total), which are sown and harvested 56,574 tasks of tobacco (48 per cent of the national total). The increased production of tobacco in this province is the pilot and smell, described as excellent.
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