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| New wire for fence-mending is hard
to come by, so tobacco farmers Nolverio Hernandez and Osiris Sanchez manage
to splice together what they have. Farmers in their region of Manicaragua
in some ways live better than many city dwellers. A horse takes them on
errands, and a kitchen garden helps keep them well fed.
Second to sugar in production on the island, tobacco neverless is closest to Cubans hearts. It was the island's first important cash crop, blooming with tobacco just decades after smoking and snuff took Europe by storm in the late 1500s. |
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