The Green Gold of Tobacco🍀A Journey to a Tobacco-Cultivating Area

Today, our journey was to an area where tobacco is cultivated on a large scale and for the first time in my life, I saw an area where tobacco is cultivated on such a large scale. This area is located about 30 kilometers from my village and the people here used to cultivate wheat, moong, sugarcane and vegetables earlier, but now the people of this area cultivate tobacco on a large scale. You can see in the pictures that the plants you see are tobacco plants and this crop is very profitable for the farmers. When I talked to the farmers, they told me that they do not have any expenses to cultivate this crop, rather whatever expenses they incur on cultivating the crop are paid by the tobacco companies. If the tobacco companies promote you, then only then these farmers cultivate tobacco because the customers who buy tobacco are only those companies and those people who are in the tobacco business. In this way, the tobacco business is very profitable. It is being done on a large scale in the area and people are earning crores of rupees. When I asked for complete details, the farmers told me that those who own the land and have land to cultivate are sponsored by the tobacco companies and all the expenses incurred on the crop are paid by the tobacco companies. When the tobacco crop is ready, the same companies buy the crop themselves and deduct whatever expenses the company has incurred on the crop and pay the remaining profit to the farmer. In this way, all these farmers are not spending a single rupee from their pockets and thus earn lakhs of rupees in profit every year.

The most important thing about tobacco farming is that it requires a lot of care and all the stages from planting the tobacco crop to harvesting are supervised by tobacco companies. In addition, before cultivating tobacco, the companies examine the land to see if this land or area is suitable for tobacco farming or not. If the climate and land are suitable for tobacco farming, then they pay the farmer all the expenses that come with cultivating the crop, such as water expenses, fertilizer expenses, spraying expenses for diseases, even from seeds to harvesting and transporting the crop to the company. The companies pay for all the expenses. Thus, this crop is being cultivated a lot these days in areas where the climate and weather are suitable for this crop. I have also seen that the people there are becoming very prosperous and the number of farmers who are cultivating this crop is increasing day by day, but it takes a lot of effort to prepare this crop. When the crop is ready, it is harvested. Therefore, a special labor is required who harvests this crop in a special way. The method of harvesting this crop is very powerful. The most important thing in harvesting this crop is the tobacco leaves. These leaves are torn from the plants and then they are kept in a special way and organized. Then these leaves are delivered to the factory in the form of bundles and bales where the leaves of these bundles are heated and heated and dried in kilns. When these leaves are dried, they are then taken to the tobacco factories and their tobacco is prepared there. Thus, when the tobacco crop is ready, special people are needed to harvest it who tear the leaves of this crop in a special way and then these leaves are kept in a special way and then these leaves are transported to the kiln on carts and transport. The kiln is the place where these The leaves are dried and placed in a hot oven to dry them out before being transported to the tobacco factory.

I asked the farmers what causes the most damage to this crop, and they said that when the monsoon season begins, the crop starts to deteriorate. Efforts are made to ensure that there is not too much rain so that the crop does not suffer much damage. In addition, when the summer season becomes intense, the crop is damaged more due to the intensity of the heat. The tobacco crop is also damaged due to excessive rains. And the crop is also damaged due to other intense heat waves. So, farmers try to harvest it as soon as the plants grow and the leaves become large and the laborers are available. Because the roots of these plants start to rot due to the rains, they start to deteriorate, and thus the leaves dry up and turn yellow. When the tobacco leaves turn yellow, it means that the tobacco crop is deteriorating. Therefore, efforts are made to ensure that the rainy season or intense heat occurs as soon as possible. The crop was harvested quickly.

Because of this crop, the entire area looks lush and green, and if you look at the flowers of the tobacco crop, these flowers are also very beautiful and very dense. This is the first time I have seen these beautiful flowers so closely. Earlier, I had seen the tobacco crop, but that crop was on a very limited scale and was available in only a few places. But today, in the area where I am, this crop is being grown on a large scale and people are also becoming prosperous. Many people are also employed because of this crop. As I have written above, specific workers are needed who are experienced to harvest this crop. Then it is packed. After packing, it is taken to the kilns with great care. Then many workers are working in the kilns. Thus, the employment of many families is also associated with this crop. Thus, this crop is valuable in every respect and is also providing employment to many people.

If someone wants to grow tobacco, the first advice for him is to contact these companies or contractors first so that they can promote his crop and he can have peace of mind. If any farmer grows the crop without contacting any tobacco company, he will have to suffer losses because when he grows the crop and then when the crop is ready, who will buy his crop? If anyone buys it, he will buy it at cheap prices. In this way, all the companies buy the crop from the people they are sponsoring because from there they buy good quantities and cheap crops, while those farmers who grow their own crops, who grow the crop on their own, then they face big problems in selling them. So I would like to write this here because if you want to grow tobacco in Miaoli district and its surrounding areas, then you must first contact these companies and contractors. So that when your harvest is ready, there will be people to buy it.

Tobacco is a drug and a crop, and people who use it in cigarettes and various tobaccos also drink and use it. It has also been seen that tobacco is also used in various medicines and drugs and medicines are also made from it that are effective in many diseases. But I will also write here that tobacco is good for health in every respect and there are many types of cancer that are caused by tobacco and tobacco is harmful to our health in every respect. We should not use tobacco at all, especially we should not use cigarettes, and all those drugs and things that are harmful to our health and in which tobacco is used should not be used. If we are using any medicine in which drugs and things have been used or tobacco is used, then we must consult a doctor and then we should use it according to the doctor's instructions.

As I have told you above, many people are employed by this crop, for example, those who harvest this crop, those who own the land and cultivate this crop on their lands, the workers who take care of this crop from sowing to harvesting, and the workers who harvest this crop and then take it to the kilns after harvesting. In this way, many people are earning their livelihood from this crop. But I have also learned that when this crop is harvested from the fields, after being harvested from the fields, it is taken to special kilns and crores of rupees are spent to build these kilns. Thus, in this area, special kilns are being built in large numbers where the leaves of the tobacco crop are heated, heat is given in these kilns and then from there it is taken to the tobacco factories. So, I will try to write a complete article about these kilns. I wanted to write and go there and take pictures of how those kilns work and how tobacco is prepared in them. This was a beautiful trip of mine to this area where tobacco is grown and people are getting happier day by day. I was very happy to see that when the tobacco crop is in its pod, when it is fully prepared, it is a big plant and the leaves of these plants are broken and taken to the kilns. But this area looks very beautiful and lush. There is greenery everywhere. All the green leaves and greenery are scattered everywhere. It looks as if the green is lying on the clean land and people are busy harvesting it. But when I reached here, it was the rainy season so the crop was not being harvested and there was standing water in the crop. But the area looked very beautiful and I also felt a beautiful fragrance in this area which was scattered in the air due to the tobacco crop. I hope you will like it. You will definitely like my article today and I thank you all very much for reading my article today. Thank you very much.