I presume burley goes mainly into smokable products like cigarettes, pipe tobacco
PMI also prohibits children under 18 from engagement in hazardous work.[429] PMI listed the hazardous activities that children of any age should not perform, including: driving vehicles, using sharp tools in movement, , handling and applying pesticides and fertilizers, carrying heavy loads, working at heights, working long hours that interfere with health and well-being, working in extreme temperatures, working at night, harvesting, topping and pulling suckers off of tobacco plants.[430]In a February 2014 meeting with Human Rights Watch, PMI officials gave several examples of tasks that the company did not consider hazardous for children, including weeding, handling seedlings, watering seedbeds, and selecting tobacco leaf after plants have dried.[431] PMI has developed detailed guidance materials, training materials and programs, and internal and external monitoring procedures specific to each market in which it works to facilitate implementation of the ALP, including the child labor policy in its global supply chain.[432] PMI also engaged Verite, a non-profit organization, to provide PMI with experience, advice and hands-on support in the creation, implementation and monitoring of the ALP Program.[433] In early 2012, PMI incorporated its ALP Code standards in contractual arrangements with all growers in the United States and conducted training sessions to cover all of its contracted farms
I feel like Im more in the entertainment business than farming. For all the pressure on it, and regulations against it, tobacco is one beautiful crop, with its floppy leaves and crown of pink and white blossoms
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"Nicotiana tabacum"
