INDIA
Over the past three years, roughly 15% of land under tobacco cultivation in India has been shifted to other crops under the government’s crop diversification program, which was implemented from 2015 to 2016.
According to agriculture ministry figures, tobacco is grown in an area of about 450,000 hectares over 15 states, counting for less than 0.3% of India’s arable land, with over 67,000 hectares having been shifted to pulses and vegetables.
Recent data from the agriculture ministry revealed that this shift from tobacco has happened in nine states led by Andhra Pradesh.