Tobacco cultivation Bangladesh Aerial view

Aerial view of Tobacco crop field in Bangladesh. Tobacco cultivation in Bandarban hill district of Bangladesh raises hackles as some companies are managing to manoeuvre a web of incentives in cash and kind to attract marginal farmers. Bandarban once was known for growing diverse food crops like paddy, maize, potato, eggplant, long gourd, bean, radish, cauliflower, cabbage, lemon, papaya, and banana, but since tobacco cultivation started the area turned into a food deficit district. Tobacco farming is damaging the environment, reducing soil fertility and occupying more and plain lands earlier used for growing rice and other crops. However, around 40000 tonnes of firewood are burnt in about 2000 tobacco processing kilns a year, depleting natural forests, according to environmentalists. “Tobacco companies are providing cash loans and fertilizers in advance, and there is conformation they buy the harvested leafs. This is the reason the farmers are bent on tobacco cultivation,” a tobacco farmer says. Another farmer said that tobacco farming was gaining the momentum as it is more profitable. The burners, commonly known as “tandur,” are burning around 100,000 tonnes of firewood annually to process some 1.75 million bales (1 bale is equal to 7217.724kg) of tobacco now being grown in the district. According to official data for 2016, tobacco is grown on 46,472 hectares of land, producing 87,628 tons of tobacco leaf. Bangladesh ranks 14th for area undertobacco, 12th for production in quantity, and has a share of 1.3% of globaltobacco production (FAOSTAT 2018).
Aerial view of Tobacco crop field in Bangladesh. Tobacco cultivation in Bandarban hill district of Bangladesh raises hackles as some companies are managing to manoeuvre a web of incentives in cash and kind to attract marginal farmers. Bandarban once was known for growing diverse food crops like paddy, maize, potato, eggplant, long gourd, bean, radish, cauliflower, cabbage, lemon, papaya, and banana, but since tobacco cultivation started the area turned into a food deficit district. Tobacco farming is damaging the environment, reducing soil fertility and occupying more and plain lands earlier used for growing rice and other crops. However, around 40000 tonnes of firewood are burnt in about 2000 tobacco processing kilns a year, depleting natural forests, according to environmentalists. “Tobacco companies are providing cash loans and fertilizers in advance, and there is conformation they buy the harvested leafs. This is the reason the farmers are bent on tobacco cultivation,” a tobacco farmer says. Another farmer said that tobacco farming was gaining the momentum as it is more profitable. The burners, commonly known as “tandur,” are burning around 100,000 tonnes of firewood annually to process some 1.75 million bales (1 bale is equal to 7217.724kg) of tobacco now being grown in the district. According to official data for 2016, tobacco is grown on 46,472 hectares of land, producing 87,628 tons of tobacco leaf. Bangladesh ranks 14th for area undertobacco, 12th for production in quantity, and has a share of 1.3% of globaltobacco production (FAOSTAT 2018).
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March 17, 2019
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