Major Tobacco Growing Areas, 1923

The world's most important tobacco producing regions in the early 1920s

Millions    Nation
of Pounds   or State
---------   ---------
     470     Kentucky
     450     British India
     320     North Carolina
     220     Austria Hungary
     140     Virginia
     130     Java
      95     Japan
      90     Tennessee
      80     South Carolina
      75     Ohio
      74     Germany
      72     Turkey (European)
      65     Philippine Islands
      60     Wisconsin
      59     Brazil
      58     Cuba
      55     Pennsylvania
      48     Sumatra
      42     Connecticut
      40     San Domingo
      35     Maryland
      25     Georgia
      22     Massachusetts
      20     Indiana
      18     West Virginia
      10     Florida

Source: The New Agriculture for High Schools by Kary Cadmus Davis, Ph. D., published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, in 1923. From the chapter titled "Tobacco Products" (p. 218.)

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