The planting of tobacco has begun

This year, similar to 2011, the farmers will produce the industrial crops on an around 4,800 hectares – told the Chairman of the Pócspetri Based Hungarian National Association of Tobacco Producers to MTI on Monday.

Bényei Illés told that the tobacco-growing area gives work to ​​more than twenty thousand people until the end of the season, and most of them, 16 thousand people lives in one of the highest unemployment region in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. He added that in the Nyírség, which is one of the most disadvantaged are 4,000 hectares will be planted until the end of May.