World Acreage and Production of Tobacco 1/ 



Tobacco is produced to some extent in practicallv every 

 country of the irorld* A relatively conplete eonpilation of all 

 published data on acreage and production, by countries, is 

 brought together in this report, coapiled almost entirely from 

 the official publications of each country. Since official publi- 

 cations are often two or three years late in reaching the 

 United States, data for the more recent years are largely from 

 the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, end from 

 reports of United States consuls, commercial attaches, agricul- 

 tural attaches, and tobacco specialists in foreign countries* 

 As official publications are received, data for the last years 

 are revised accordingly end for this reason the more recent 

 data herein should be considered preliminary* 



The year beginning July was decided upon since it corre- 

 sponds most nearly to the harvesting year for crops of tobacco 

 in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. In the Northern 

 Hemisphere the tobacco crop is harvested in the summer and fall 

 while in the Southern Hemisphere the crop is harvested in the 

 spring* For example, in the Northern Hemisphere, data for 1933 

 are for crops harvested in the summer and fall of 1933* the 

 Southern Hemisphere, they are for crops harvested in the spring 

 of 193^» I'or many countries bordering on the Bquator data 

 are for the harvest which started late in 1933 and continued 

 into the early months of 133^* 



Since the World War a prevedent use has been made of the 

 pre««war average I909-I3. For this reason, estimates as within 

 post-war boundaries have been made for all European countries 

 whose boundaries were altered and where new States were created* 

 These estimates of acreeige and production were made by the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics in 192U, and are included in 

 this compilation. 



During the period of the war, tobacco production 

 decreased in many European countries and in addition, complete 

 data for some countries are not available* Data for the period 

 I91U-19, therefore, are omitted from this compilation except 

 where the official publications state that data are for the 

 post-wor boundaries. In this compilation, for European 

 countries whose boundaries were changed, the series from I909 



1/ Compiled by Claudia Thomson, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



