{"id":32984,"date":"2019-02-23T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32984"},"modified":"2019-02-23T19:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:29:33","slug":"cubas-tobacco-growers-confront-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32984","title":{"rendered":"Cuba&#8217;s tobacco growers confront climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">San Lu\u00eds, Cuba (CNN)<\/cite>Looking at the plain, one-story wooden shacks that dot the countryside in Cuba&#8217;s vuelta abajo region, one would never guess that the farmers here grow one of the island&#8217;s most valuable natural resources: cigar tobacco.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Though Cuban cigars are famous worldwide, the majority of the tobacco that goes into premium cigars is grown in this relatively small valley in Western Cuba that possesses a unique micro-climate and rich volcanic soil.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The fields behind Hirochi Robaina&#8217;s house are full of mature tobacco plants, and the drying houses where the tobacco hangs and ages for at least 30 days are stacked to the rafters. But the fifth-generation tobacco grower is still not happy with this year&#8217;s harvest.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Lu\u00eds, Cuba (CNN)Looking at the plain, one-story wooden shacks that dot the countryside in Cuba&#8217;s vuelta abajo region, one would never guess that the farmers here grow one of the island&#8217;s most valuable natural resources: cigar tobacco.Though Cuban cigars are famous worldwide, the majority of the tobacco that goes into premium cigars is grown&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}