North Carolina is also home to about 3,000 tobacco farms.
According to NC Dept of Agriculture:
"Tobacco has historically been the major cash crop in North Carolina and remains one of the state's most predominant farm commodities. North Carolina produces almost three-quarters of the flue-cured tobacco grown in the United States. In 1939, the State harvested the record high number of acres of 851,000 acres.
Tobacco remains one of North Carolina's most profitable crops and a substantial contributor to the value of farm production"
(Source: www.ncagr.gov/stats/general/commodities.htm)
In addition:
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee are also great producers of Tobacco.
Countries
China is the largest producer and consumer of tobacco in the world producing about 39% of the World's supply. (followed by Brazil, India and then the US- The US produces %6 of the world's supply of tobacco)
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North Carolina leads the nation in tobacco farming.
North Carolina &Georgia are the two top leading farming/production states.
Kentucky is the largest tobacco growing state. It was North Carolina until the early 90's. (in fact I live in the city that was the largest market within North Carolina during those years,
Small farms, particularly in the southeastern regions of the United States, grow most of the nation's tobacco. The major tobacco growing states are North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
North Carolina was a major producer of tobacco and pine.
Virginia
North Carolina is a major producer of tobacco and pine tar.
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The worlds largest tobacco industry is in china with 1.1billion people consuming tobbaco a day
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It was a major producer in exchange and export.
The State of Virginia where Jamestown is located became the major producer of Tobacco.
The world's major producers of Tobacco includes Malawi, Zimbabwe, Turkey, the United States, Brazil, India and China. The world's major producers of tobacco account for 80 percent of the world's tobacco.
tobacco, rice, and Indigo Dye.
Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri all grow tobacco as either a major or regional producer in the USA.