Editorial photo #195234 Human Interest

Bulgaria Tobacco

Mustafa and Ganime Mehrini pick up tobacco leaves at a cropfield near the town of Razlog some 145 km south from the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Sunday, July, 27, 2014 They migrate every summer from their native village of Ribnovo (about 44 km to the east of Razlog) to Razlog where the soil is more appropriate for growing tobacco. Tobacco production is an extremely important branch of Bulgarian farming. Almost all the tabacco produce in Bulgaria is intended to be exported. The cropfields where tobacco is grown in Bulgaria are as large as 43 000 dka. Growing tobacco is hugely difficult especially during planting and collecting the leaves. On the contrary the farmers usually are forced to sell their tobacco production at very low prices. A family needs to grow tobacco on at least 8 dka so as they would be able to fund living.Photo by: Petko Momchilov/Impact Press Group/NurPhoto