Tobacco breaking season has started

The farmers expect a 1.6 to 1.7 tons per hectare average yield. It is little less than last year's 1.8 tons from the 4,800 hectares of crop land – Bényei Illés Chairman of the Hungarian National Association of Tobacco Producers (MADOSZ) told MTI on Wednesday.

Bényei Illés added that last year a total of more than nine thousand tobacco leaves were broken down and sold by the farmers. Eighty percent of the tobacco growing area is  situated in ​​ Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. (MTI)