Tobacco Price Support: An Overview of the Program

Womach, Jasper

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Agriculture;    Tobacco;    Tobacco industry;    Farmers;    Rural affairs;   

RP-ID  :  95-129
RP-ID  :  95-129_2004Jun25

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

About 94 percent of U.S. tobacco production is flue-cured and burley (cigarette tobacco types). These crops are particularly important to the agriculture of North Carolina and Kentucky. The federal tobacco price support program is designed to support and stabilize prices for farmers.