A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTION IN MACEDONIA AND IN THE WORLD
Silvana PASHOVSKA, Karolina KOCHOSKA, Natasha ZDRAVESKA
Abstract
In today's conditions, tobacco production remains a massive, globalized production throughout the reproductive cycle and retains its fundamental importance as a serious social and economic culture despite all the challenges, bans and anti-smoking propaganda by the World Health Organization. The tobacco industry mobilizes millions of workers in agricultural production and regenerates other jobs in primary production, in tobacco processing, in the production and trade of tobacco products, while simultaneously engaging science in researching its problems.
Primary tobacco production is located on areas with poor quality, which are on the margins of other alternative production. These are degraded areas, modest in nutritional, organic and mineral structures, but suitable for growing tobacco - because it is a modest plant with minimal vegetation needs. Due to such natural advantages for its production, it covers the smallest part of the arable land, and provides multiple incomes, like no other crop.
In the consumer sphere, the products of the tobacco industry are globally inelastic in terms of price – smokers buy cigarettes with a lower price and quality when the price of cigarettes increases, and vice versa, but consumption remains the same. According to data from the World Health Organization, tobacco production is correlated with population growth – 6,000,000,000 kg of tobacco products (cigarettes) account for 6,000,000,000 people, which means that there is a balance between them. World production and stocks of tobacco, not taking into account current production, are balanced over a long period, and often stocks are larger than current production, of course, at a global level.
The tobacco production area in Macedonia is characterized by enviable quality and world reputation. Efforts are needed to further develop the production and economic policy through the implementation of a development strategy, which includes price policy as a necessary stimulus in tobacco production.
Pages: 177 - 183