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		<title>Philip Morris stock pushes to highest price in 12 months</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But that&#8217;s not the only good news for Philip Morris ( PM ) and the tobacco industry. Despite projections indicating cigarette smoking will kill approximately 5 million people per year, nicotine &#8211; the fiercely addictive stimulant in the tobacco plant &#8211; has been mounting a comeback for the past few years, The Washington Post reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco farmers asked to grow recommended variety only</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tobacco growers have been asked not to cultivate the non-recommended variety (NRV) of tobacco to avoid the dilemma like the previous year, when the tobacco producing, manufacturing, and export companies refused to purchase their crops. The tobacco companies on Thursday held a meeting with the Pakistan Tobacco Board (PTB), which was chaired by its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco farmers oppose  single excise tax rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tobacco farmers have expressed their opposition to a proposal of the Department of Finance (DOF) to impose a single excise tax rate on tobacco products. The National Federation of Tobacco Farmers’ Associations and Cooperatives Inc. (NAFTAC) also appealed to lawmakers to postpone the implementation of the proposed new excise tax scheme on tobacco and alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Grower Profile Shifts in Zimbabwe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOBACCO output is likely to increase after more communal and small scale farmers dumped the traditionally preferred maize and cottons crops. Statistics released by the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) for the week ending 28 October 2011 show that 4 401 new communal farmers and 5 788 new A1 farmers have registered for the 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global surplus pulls down tobacco prices, farmers mull alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nageswar Rao of Ngpadu village in Prakasam district of coastal Andhra Pradesh, a farmer who has grown only tobacco for more than three decades, is anxious about his future. Despite the golden crop having given him handsome returns for decades, Rao is sceptical mainly due to huge rise in the cost of production while price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette makers come to the rescue of AP farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domestic cigarette manufacturers led by ITC Limited have come to the rescue of tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh during the current year by procuring more quantity of flue cured tobacco (FCT) than what they needed so as to stabilise the falling prices. Around 50,000 tobacco farmers in the state are stated to have been benefitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco farmers oppose move to cut crop size</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tobacco growers are opposing any move to reduce the crop size for the coming season. They met Tobacco Board executive director Ch Subba Rao in the light of the Indian Tobacco Association (ITA) sending a proposal to the board suggesting cut in the crop size. The ITA had recently written to the board to reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Price set by Pakistan Tobacco Board hits growers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tobacco growers have said that their hard earned labour was going up in smoke due to the exploitation of the tobacco companies and the apathy of the local bureaucracy that fixes the rates of the commodity. The Pakistan Tobacco Board has fixed the price of the commodity below its cost of production, Ikramullah Khan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco farmers get aid for planting rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over P220 million worth of production assistance will be provided by the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) to tobacco farmers so they plant rice during the rainy season. NTA administrator Edgardo D. Zaragoza said the program will boost the drive to become self-sufficient in rice 2013. Zaragoza recently distributed checks to 1,484 farmer co-operators in La [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 09:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October, in chaotic Mexico City, a small army of protestors, sporting placards and shouting into bullhorns, worsened the usual traffic snarl around San Lazaro, the nation’s congressional office complex. Television news accounts showed screaming-mad tobacco farmers, some of whom had boarded buses and traveled 500 miles to warn federal legislators that new taxes on [...]]]></description>
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