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Planting any land to row crops, year after year, requires good management or the quality of the soil will deteriorate. This is true of tobacco and many other crops. High value crops, like tobacco and cotton, are sometimes planted by poorly skilled farmers for a quick buck. So does the crop ruin the soil, or the poorly skilled grower?

One type of management practice is the rotation of crops grown in the field. This means planting different crops in the field in different growing seasons, according to a set pattern. Rotations are done to replenish soil nutrients and soil quality, and also for disease and pest control.

it just so happens that tobacco shares a number of pests with other crops, like peanuts and tomatoes, so in a way tobacco can temporarily "ruin" the soil for some crops.

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