general, but mainly to West Germany. Others have 

 gone from Italy to France, Switzerland, and other 

 areas. Significant numbers of Italians have shifted from 

 southern Italy to Milan and other industrial cities. 



Not all the workers who migrated were from the 

 rural areas, nor were they all tobacco workers; how- 

 ever, the more city workers migrate to the European 

 Economic Community (EEC), the more jobs there Turkey, as world demand increases for fliue-cured and 



would be available to tobacco workers who desire to 

 go to urban centers within their country. 



Burley Emerges 



In some of these countries, especially Greece and 



TABLE 4.— ORIENTAL AND SEMI-ORIENTAL TOBACCOS: ESTIMATED ACREAGE HARVESTED AND 

 PRODUCTION IN SPECIFIED COUNTRIES, AVERAGE 1955-59, 1962-64 



Country 



Acreage harvested 



Production ^ 



Average 

 1955-59 



1962 



1963 -' 1964 2 



Average 

 1955-59 



1962 



1963 2 



1964 : 



1,000 1,000 1,000 1.000 1,000 



South America: acres acres acres acres pounds 



Argentina 2 3 2 3 770 



Chile _ _ 4 — — 



Colombia — — (^) (3) — 



Europe : 



Greece 284 306 360 357 199,767 



Italy 60 44 60 64 44,950 



Bulgaria 236 282 339 — 159,467 



Czechoslovakia 6 — — — 3,992 



Hungary 17 19 21 24 21,801 



Poland 5 10 13 17 3,595 



Rumania 84 — — — 57,905 



Yugoslavia 113 77 122 137 88,911 



USSR 237 241 296 296 198,801 



Africa: 



Libya (*) (*) (^) (4) 51 



Zambia (3) (s) (s) l 108 



Malawi (3) (s) (3) (s) 3 



Rhodesia 112 2 548 



Tanganyika — (3) (3) (3) — 



S. Africa, Rep. of 2 2 2 3 850 



Asia: 



Cyprus : 



Latakia 4 6 5 6 1,511 



Iran: 



Cigarette 37 39 46 63 21,318 



Iraq 8 12 9 19 6,091 



Israel 9 10 1 5 4,134 



Syria: 



Oriental 3 7 8 8 2,440 



Semi-oriental 15 17 21 31 10,432 



Turkey 404 367 582 610 259,426 



Lebanon: 



Shak al Bent 1112 576 



Latakia 8 9 10 12 5,607 



Pakistan 15 ig 13 12 13,308 



Thailand — (s) (3) (3) 



Total 1,551 5 1,561 ^ 2,013 5 2,107 1,106,362 



1 Farm sales weight. - Preliminary; subject to revision. 3 Less than 500 acres, 

 for countries listed for which data are not available. FAS sources. 



1,000 

 pounds 

 1,336 



205,253 



29,416 



216,785 



17,906 

 6,700 



59,524 

 211,500 



350 



19 



68 



291 



36 



1,000 



2,246 



14,330 

 3,065 

 4,894 



3,668 



11,310 



197,393 



800 



7,313 



16,000 



111 



1,000 



pounds 

 1,102 



2 

 22 



279.700 



44,866 



209,400 



25,900 

 15,677 



103,710 

 232,500 



450 



20 



104 



1,242 



43 



1,200 



2,099 



18,518 



5,300 



210 



1,534 



4,750 



289,662 



900 



8,266 



16,000 



165 



1,000 

 pounds 

 1,625 



43 



273,538 

 53,148 



37,854 

 18,500 



131,850 

 232,500 



475 

 648 

 110 



2,200 

 69 



1,200 



2,200 



16,148- 



11,700 



2,686 



5,800 



17,951 



351,780 



1,090 



10,310 



16,400 



204 



5 1,094,250 5 1349,206 51,531,929 



^ Not available. 5 includes estimates 



