The
tobacco is an indigenous plant of Antillean origin, and its
scientific name comes of (Nicotina Tabacum). The first news
on the existence of the tobacco appear in Columbus's Diary,
where the text of historical truthfulness expressed that
between the November 2nd. and 5th. of 1492, the Spaniards in
the Cuban coast, met the first plant of tobacco. Starting
from November 6th, of that same year began the habit of
using tobacco with medicinal functions and illnesses that
the Spaniards were suffering.
Among
them could be pointed out:
- The use of bandages of green leaves of tobacco
semi-cooked to treat the headache.
- The placement of green leaves in the abdomen to
expel parasites out of the children.
- Also, tobacco was used to stop the hemorrhages in
the wounds and to prevent the astonishment
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The natives from the Antilles
called the pipe tobacco and ritual ceremonies and mixed them
with other hallucinogenic substances.
The use of tobacco by the aboriginal was also intimately
related with its activities of religious character
The first Europeans that made contact with tobacco were
Spaniards that Columbus sent to explore the interior of Cuba
island, these people were Rodrígo de Jerez and Luis Torres.
They traveled the banks of the river along the Banks of
Caunao river in Cuba.
Seeds of the tobacco plant (the natives called this planta
“cohiba”), were taken to Spain in 1492 sent by Fray Ramón
Pané to Carlos V from La Hispaniola.
The first tobacco factory in Seville, Spain, was installed
in 1763, with tobacco sent from Santo Domingo.
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TABACCO
- Cultivation
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The
cultivation of tobacco requires for its best development,
fertile and flat earth and moderate rains. They also need to
use certain techniques to achieve a maximum of productivity
and a better quality in the product.
Traditionally the tobacco is planted in the period of
November to January, after the big rains that begin in
September.
The peasant relates the plantation of the tobacco with the
cycle of the moon and the parties of religious character.
That is to say that if the plantation of the tobacco
coincides with this parties and with the new moon and the
moderate rains, one presumes that there will be a good crop.
The gathering of the leaves of the tobacco is done more or
less at four months of the growth. After being gathered they
are smoothed and are in threads and placed in the ranches
for the drying of the tobacco.
The main Center of Production of the Tobacco of the
Dominican Republic. It is located in the region of the
Cibao, where the most fertile earth exists for the
cultivation of this aromatic leaf and the cigarettes of
higher quality of the world are manufactured.
Our main countries of export of the tobacco are: United
States, Belgium, France, Germany, England, Spain, Morocco
and Puerto Rico, which consume the tobacco of the Dominican
Republic for the great satisfaction that any one feels when
testing the excellence of our product. |
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