AGRICULTURE
SUKHOTHAI : Nearly 10,000 families of Burley tobacco planters in Sukhothai have called on the Public Health Ministry to reconsider its plan to ban or phase out growing of two tobacco varieties.
The ban on Burley and Oriental tobacco, in compliance with an international agreement on tobacco control, would leave only Virginia in the market, said Somnuek Yimpim, the headman of Thap Pueng subdistrict.
The Public Health Ministry is preparing to ratify the pact initiated by the World Health Organisation in 2003.
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- Writer: Yuthana Praiwan
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