The Tobacco Buzz

Farmers only gain small profit from the tobacco business and its products. Large cigarette company owners make the most.

October 6, 2010

AT 1,500 meters above sea level, Legok Sari village, Tlogomulyo district in Temanggung, Central Java, is not your typical vision of a mountainside village. Inhabited by 1,625 residents, this village is a center for tobacco growers in Temanggung regency. “Of the thousands of village residents, only one does not plant tobacco,” Legok Sari village head, Subakir, told Tempo, on a visit to the village on Friday last week.

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