Monthly Archives: October 2006

Cuban farmers are experimenting with new tobacco types for the 2006-07 harvest in order to reduce the effects of blue mold and black shank and to achieve greater control over the distribution of seeds. Two new hybrids in particular are … Continue reading →

TAMPA, Fla. – For about five years in the 1990s, the cigar industry luxuriated in a wild sales boom when celebrities and trendy 20-somethings decided that puffing imported, hand-rolled stogies was The Next Big Thing.

Came across this article. CUBAN-CIGAR MERCHANTS are declaring death of the tobacco weevil following a visit to a new, massive storage and quality control center in Guanabacoa, a suburb of Havana.