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Article: Ag Chief Predicts Georgia Could be Number One Grower in 10 Years.
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- July 31, 2002
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ATLANTA -- Georgia Department of Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin returned from his 2002 Tobacco Tour with the prediction that Georgia could be the leading tobacco growing state within ten years if the buyout program of the tobacco quota system is successful.
"With a successful buyout program with no restrictions, Georgia will be growing as much or more than any other state within ten years," Commissioner Irvin told a breakfast audience before the opening auction in Statesboro Tuesday.
Commissioner Irvin said that companies prefer the high quality flue-cured tobacco grown in Georgia and that preference matched with the contract system and the ...