Death Marketing -2

Hybrid tobacco aggression

The farming of hybrid tobacco has rampantly spread over Rangpur region. The tobacco companies are alluring the farmers with a high profit and leading them to grow the hybrid tobacco on their arable lands. Despite the Central Bank ban on loan for tobacco farming, the tobacco companies have continued the loan process with the commercial banks and simultaneously using the government subsidized fertilizers to grow tobacco. The lack of strict monitoring by the agricultural department is accelerating the entire process as well. As a result the toxic tobacco farming is expanding aggressively inside the country including Rangpur and emerging as a highly potential threat for the food security, public health, forestry, environment, ecology sol fertility and overall on the national economy.