Tobacco 2025: More Production and Better Prices in a Campaign with Planting Delays

The tobacco campaign has begun with a delay in planting due to rainfall, in a year when more production is expected, with more cultivated hectares and better prices for farmers, who are facing problems of labor shortage and limitations on the use of phytosanitary products. The director of the Tobacco Interprofessional Organization of Spain (Oitab), Fernando Vaquero, told Efeagro that this campaign "could be a good year in quantity and quality," as around 6,400 hectares are expected to be dedicated in Spain - nearly 98% in northern Cáceres - compared to 6,018 hectares in 2024. As in all campaigns, Oitab has compiled the pre-harvest contracting data from last March: the nearly thousand farmers who have decided to grow tobacco this year estimate selling 23,077,673 kilos. This figure, which like in other years will be revised in June, represents 840,039 kilos more than in 2024, which is equivalent to an increase of 3.77%. The main buyers are the Spanish first transformation company ...