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Homegrown tobacco in Ireland

Ubbquittious · 2020-12-24 23:21:21

Anyone have much luck with it? Do the revenue hounds come chasing after you?

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25-12-2020 12:21am

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Anyone have much luck with it? Do the revenue hounds come chasing after you?

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#2 25-12-2020 6:58pm
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Have you seen this article?
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/tillage/tipp-farmer-with-ambitions-to-produce-premium-cigars-from-tobacco-grown-in-ireland-35353881.html
https://tobaccoreporter.com/2017/01/16/an-irish-cigar-in-the-making/

Have a look at here for more info; https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055216764

But keep this in mind;

[url=https://inishindiegardenmatters.blogspot.com/2016/03/tobacco-growing-in-ireland.html]InishIndieGardenMatters[/url] wrote:

Growing tobacco plants seem to come with a load of health warnings. I would be growing it for a pest deterrent and wouldn’t even consider smoking ANY deadly pesticide.
There are even warnings on touching the plants. One book tells me “First, be careful handling fresh tobacco leaves. Touching wet leaves can cause green tobacco sickness, a type of nicotine poisoning. The sickness frequently affects tobacco harvesters, usually migrant workers lacking adequate protection.”

Seems the old law is a max of 2 acres, but a minimum of 0.5 acres. Not sure if that still applies.

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