According to German technology university TU Dortmund, their researchers have managed to genetically modify a tobacco plant called Virginia Smoking Tobacco, so that its concentration of the highly ...

Tobacco farmers here received Monday agricultural inputs to help boost production and encourage others to take part in the ...

When he asked to take the plant’s seeds back with ... managed to procure seeds for Indian tobacco from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation in Virginia back in 2006. But the real prize ...

The plant also is eligible for an MEI Commission ... subject to approval by the Virginia General Assembly. The Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission has approved up to $25 million ...

Robert J. Mills Jr., a tobacco, beef and poultry producer in Pittsylvania County, was elected last week as vice president of ...

Virginia was being held back. Thanks to tobacco, it had the means to make money. What was needed, though, were laborers -- laborers to clear fields, to plant and harvest crops. During the 1620s ...

Two years later, the colonists began to experiment with various types of tobacco. The plant grew successfully in the Carribean. Now they found a variety that was well-suited to Virginia.

The group, whose brands include Golden Virginia tobacco, Rizla rolling papers, Winston cigarettes and the vaping brand blu, said net profit rose 12 percent to £2.6 billion ($3.3 billion ...