Satisfaction in the field with the tobacco campaign despite the margin reduction due to irrigation.

Tobacco producers have already harvested half of the 23 million kilos planned for this campaign and for now they are satisfied with the results, despite the high summer and autumn temperatures that have increased irrigation costs, with the consequent reduction of their margins. From Extremadura, Dionisio Sánchez, member of the National Federation of Tobacco Growers, assured Efeagro that "it is the first time that he has had to irrigate in the month of October" since he started, more than 40 years ago, with this crop. Sánchez, who is also the manager of the Agrarian Transformation Society (SAT) Association Group TAB - the largest cooperative of producers - has acknowledged that this circumstance, due to the high temperatures that have developed in summer and continue in autumn, has resulted in an "increase in costs." Despite this, he recognizes that the grower, in general, "is satisfied" with the campaign since, with 50% of the harvest in the drying houses of the processing ...