Bulgaria's tobacco industry going up in smoke

[Article] Tobacco, once Bulgaria's most valuable asset has been slowly smoked out. The fall of communism led to the disbanding of cooperative farms and a decline in tobacco production, leaving farmers struggling to make ends meet.

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It's 5 in the morning but tobacco growers in Bulgaria's southern Rhodope mountains are already hard at work.They will hang these leaves to dry at home and months will pass before they make their way to the cigarette makers -- a time-consuming trade where producers earn around 3 euros per kilo of dried...
This article was published Monday, 30 October, 2017 by AFP (323 words)
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