Brazil is the second largest producer of tobacco with a harvest of 851,000 tonnes in 2013, and about 85 per cent of it – worth $3.26 billion – exported mostly to China.
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Around 82 per cent of southern Brazil's tobacco acreage is for Flue Cured Virginia while Burley tobacco accounts for 17 per cent and the one per cent is for common tobacco used for domestic purposes. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
In Brazil's Northeast, dark air-cured tobacco grown in states such as Bahia and Alagoas, destined mainly for the manufacture of higher value cigars and cigarillos and also dark cigarette tobacco. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Tobacco farming in Brazil employs 52,000 people, specially in periods of planting, harvesting, sorting and drying. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazil produces approximate 100 million kilos of Burley tobacco. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazil meanwhile produces 706 million kilos of Flue-Cured Virginia leaf tobacco, the biggest in the world. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazilian tobacco is now exported to over 100 countries. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Hand rolled cigars are made in the 142-year-old Dannemann cigar factory in Sao Felix, Brazil. The all-female workforce hand roll cigars in a traditional process that has been passed down to current workers from their own mothers and grandmothers. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Tobacco export corresponds to 1.35 per cent of Brazil's overall export of all goods and services. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazil tobacco's main destination is the European Union with 42 per cent, followed by Southeastern Asia 27 per cent and North America 13 per cent. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazil’s tobacco crop occupies less than 1 per cent of the country’s total land area. Above, hand rolled cigars produced in the 142-year-old Dannemann cigar factory in Sao Felix, Brazil. Mario Tama / Getty Images -
Brazilian tobacco is now exported to over 100 countries. Mario Tama / Getty Images
In pictures: Brazil’s $3.26 billion tobacco export industry
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