Tobacco is, as some people say, a difficult subject. We are agriculture, there's no doubt about it, but tobacco hasn't been treated the same as the rest. Government policies have affected our marketplace. We need a decision made to help us exit tobacco farming, because our equity is destroyed. The livelihood is going to disappear as smoking declines. That's a given and we accept that. But we cannot get out of this mess ourselves. Our communities, and we as farmers, are in severe distress.
