It's cultivation by hand, which everyone learns from the time they are small, and the entire family works to sustain a livelihood. |
This has dropped off nowadays, because most of the workers who grow tobacco are older. Their children are studying and working in the cities. They don't know how to do anything else. |
We are foreseeing 2.5 fewer workers during the 2005/2006 harvest, because of company mergers and modernization. In addition, it's turning out to be cheaper for companies to process tobacco in Santa Catarina. |