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Tobacco Harvest In Bulgaria

People, members of two families, collecttobacco leaves at sunrise in a cropfield near the town of Razlog some 145 km south from the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Aug. 13, 2018. They migrate every summer from their native village of Ribnovo (about 44 km to the east of Razlog) to Razlog where the soil is better for growing tobacco. Tobacco production is an extremely important branch of Bulgarian farming. Almost all the tobacco 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- 7leva (3,5 euro) in year 2017. 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 GroupNurPhoto

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