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PRODUCTION OF ORIENTAL TOBACCOS IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES Kiril Filiposki, 1)Mile Pesevski, Nebojsa Ralevic, 1)Romina Kabranova Kiril Filiposki University”St.Kliment Ohridski”-Bitola, Scientific Tobacco Institute-Prilep, Kicevski pat bb. 7500 Prilep; e-mail: kirilfiliposki@yahoo.com; 1)Mile Pesevski, Romina Kabranova, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Food, Skopje, R. Macedonia, blvd. Aleksandar Makedonski bb, 1000 Skopje, e-mail: milepesevski@yahoo.com; rkabranova@yahoo.co.uk; Nebojsa Ralevic, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade, R. Serbia Nemanjina 6, 11080 Beograd - Zemun, e-mail: nralevic@agrif.bg.ac.rs ABSTRACT Production of oriental tobaccos is mainly located in the Balkan countries, as well as in some countries of Asia and Former Soviet Republics. The share of this type in the world tobacco production is gradually decreasing. The tendency of decreasing has been clearly observed in the Balkan countries. Subsidies given by the state helped to maintain the tobacco production in Macedonia and Bulgaria. The leading producer in the last five years was Turkey with 77.570 t, followed by Bulgaria with 23.430 t, Greece - 20.494 t, Macedonia – 20.173 t, Albania-2.453 t and finally Serbia with 308 t.The total share of these countries in the world production of oriental tobacco in the last few years dropped from 60,41% to 52,70%. The main reasons for this decline is the abolishment of subsidies in Greece and the shift from tobacco toward olive production and development of tourism in Turkey. To maintain the production of oriental tobacco in the Republic of Macedonia, the government must continue with subsidization.
Key words: oriental tobacco, production, Basma, Prilep, Krumovgrad, Izmir, Samsun, Katerini |
