Tobacco Used by Don Pepin

[Mr. Ed]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

If I am not mistaken Ed, Pepin uses tobacco from Eduardo Fernández's Aganorsa farms. (García and Fernández established Tabacalera Cubana de García y Fernández S.A. in Estelí.)

Aganorsa has several large farms in Esteli and the Jalapa Valley. They have over 500 acres of Cuban-seed shade-grown wrapper leaf and 320 acres of sun-grown Habano tobacco, under cultivation in Jalapa, Nicaragua. In nearby Esteli, they grow powerful ligero leaf, on another 150 acres.

Does he actually oversee the farming of this tobacco or simply buy it from Fernandez? I've always been under the impression that he bought his tobacco from farmers and other manufacturers.