Source: Vicki Hyatt, THE MOUNTAINEER, 7/20/22

There’s a new tobacco variety being tested in the mountains of Western North Carolina — one that has a ready market and money-making potential. It’s called cigar wrapper tobacco and is the blemish-free outer wrapping of a cigar, said Tucker Worley, a horticulture research specialist at the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s Mountain Research Station just outside Waynesville.

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