NewsWhore
05-04-2011, 03:30 PM
The historic tobacco crop called 'andullo' is alive and well in the south of the Dominican Republic. Andullo is a long, sausage-like roll of tobacco leaves that is tightly wrapped in palm seedpods (called "yagua") and aged for years. Each 25-pound andullo sells for between RD$1800 and RD$2000. This is a product for internal consumption, still used in Dominican rural areas for smoking in pipes and for chewing.
Because of their watertight packaging, andullos have a history dating back four and a half centuries in the Dominican Republic. Shipping records show tobacco being sent to Spain in the mid 1500s, and andullos were the only way to survive the wet storage spaces of the old wooden ships.
According to El Caribe, this year's crop will produce RD$275 million for the province of Azua, with over 10,000 tareas being planted with the tobacco used for this product. Some 14,500 andullos are expected to be produced.
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Because of their watertight packaging, andullos have a history dating back four and a half centuries in the Dominican Republic. Shipping records show tobacco being sent to Spain in the mid 1500s, and andullos were the only way to survive the wet storage spaces of the old wooden ships.
According to El Caribe, this year's crop will produce RD$275 million for the province of Azua, with over 10,000 tareas being planted with the tobacco used for this product. Some 14,500 andullos are expected to be produced.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)