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THE TOBACCO PRODUCERS OF THE COUNTY LOST $26.000.000 

The storing of tobacco Virginia in Salta conclude with the best volume in delivery of you finish them three campaigns, but with the worst price average for kilo of the decade. The main agricultural activity of the county doesn't have good perspectives for the campaign 2000-2001, in which was asked to the producers to reduce 20 percent of the cultivated surfaces the previous year, since the prices for the internal market and the export will be the same ones that were paid during it finishes it campaign. For this situation the producers lost of winning 26.000.000 of dollars. - 

Last Friday I conclude the storing of tobacco Virginia of the campaign 1999-2000 that closed with a total of 29.560.000 received in the mouths of The Rail according to managerial sources (NOBILITY), Rosario of Lerma (MASSALIN), and Estación Alvarado(COPROTAB). 

The figure overcomes the estimates of the Camera of Tobacco of Salta that foresaw the storing of single 25 million kilos. 

A report given by the tobacco entity indicates that the damages that were considered for rains, hail and droughts didn't have the prospective incidence, what you relates directly with the number of kilos surrendered in the last campaign. 

Of bad in worse  

Tobacco Campain 

PRODUCTION (In kilos) AVERAGE PRICE

1996/1997 36.500.000 2.02 

1997/1998 28.000.000 1.49 

1998/1999 27.000.000 1.34 

1999/2000 29.500.000 1.14 

From the campaign 1996/1997, when the Virginia salteño beat all the marks with 36.500.000 gathered kilos, the local production came of bad in worse, with 28.000.000 of kilos in the campaign 1997/1998 and 27.000.000 in the campaign 1998/1999. 

This situation, was reverted with the 29.560.000 kilos surrendered until the previous week in the storing mouths. 

Comparative prices 

During it finishes it tobacco campaign (main agricultural activity of the county) it lost in comparative prices with the campaign 1996/1997, near 26.000.000 us $. 

In it finishes it campaign, the share cuttings prepared in the main mouth of storing of the industrial sector, and attributed to decisions of their dealer (exporter), they took to many producing of the region to appeal Estación Alvarado's Acopiadora, COPROTAB, to save from sure losses to the big surpluses of Virginia deposited in the properties. - 

The non alone tobacco sustains to 1200 producers jumps us, but to 11.000 workers, included the family groups of some and of others: they are near 50.000 people.   

Extracted information of newspaper THE TRIBUNE (Salta, ARGENTINA)