A torcedor (Spanish term for cigar maker or cigar roller) cutting a dry tobacco leaf using a chaveta, (a crescent-shaped piece of steel used by a cigar
A torcedor (Spanish term for cigar maker or cigar roller) cuts a dry tobacco leaf using a chaveta, (crescent-shaped piece of steel used by a cigar roller in a cigar factory to cut a wrapper leaf to size) at his workbench on a tobacco-producing farm in the Valle de Vinales, Pinar del Río Province, west Cuba, Cuba. Private tobacco growers have owned their tobacco farms, in some cases for generations . Over 90 per cent of the tobacco crop is for the Cuban state. Even though the farms are technically private, the Cuban government is the only tobacco buyer. Tobacco is not a native of Cuba but is believed to have arrived from the Latin Americas between 2000 and 3,000 BC. The new plant was called ‘Cohiba’ and retains that name with the Cohiba brand today which is one of Cuba’s chief exports. Cuban cigars are regarded as the very best in the world. Cuba has excellent tobacco-growing conditions and several hundred years of growing experience.
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Location: Valle de Vinales, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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