The well-documented labour intensiveness of tobacco farming largely explains why smallholder tobacco farmers generally earn very little considering their efforts
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Since the signing of the Bill, though, the US Department Agriculture has been called in to regulate hemp farming, although it also gives states the right to offer their own proposals for building the industry