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Weather conditions in the Perigord and Quercy are particularly favorable for growing tobacco.
The cooperative Perigord Tobacco is the first French producer with 3,000 tonnes per year.
Traditional varieties, brown or light, have the same production cycle : planting seeds are made in March. The dubbing, the hoeing and beheading took place from spring to summer. Then comes in early autumn, the harvest which is traditionally made rod by rod.
Here, the latest step : the drying in a ventilated shed a typical construction of tobacco-growing regions.
Once sorted, the leaves are channeled to the cooperative.

This rigorous plant, imported from South America in the sixteenth century, was originally used for its medicinal properties... We can say that its first usefulness is forgot since a long time.

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