{"id":164450,"date":"2025-06-30T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/?p=164450"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:16:58","slug":"pakistans-largest-tobacco-growing-region-suffers-huge-storm-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/2025\/06\/30\/pakistans-largest-tobacco-growing-region-suffers-huge-storm-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Largest Tobacco Growing Region Suffers Huge Storm Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly 60% of the Virginia tobacco crop in Pakistan\u2019s Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has reportedly been badly damaged by a thunderstorm, according to local farmers. The damage occurred at a critical harvesting stage, rendering the affected leaves unsuitable for curing, which has deeply impacted growers&#8217; livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce the tobacco plant falls to the ground, its leaves are no longer useful for curing, causing growers huge losses,\u201d said Safdar Khan, a farmer from the Maneri Bala village, adding that the government didn\u2019t come to their aid after being struck by a natural calamity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swabi produces about 53% of KP\u2019s tobacco output, with an estimated 15,500 hectares planted, last year producing about 42 million kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to the damage to our crop, we are stuck in an economic quagmire, and there is no one to help us,\u201d said local grower Baswar Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swabi produces about 53% of KP\u2019s tobacco output, with an estimated 15,500 hectares planted, last year producing about 42 million kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":163190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-agriculture-post-template","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1602,1604],"tags":[2454,420,2453,2452],"class_list":["post-164450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-sustainability","category-breaking-news","tag-damage","tag-pakistan","tag-storm","tag-swabu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164451,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164450\/revisions\/164451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}