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A 'flop' that flourished

This article described how tobacco seedlings, from a shaky start in trays, ended up larger, healthier and hardier than those grown in seedbeds.

The first on-farm proof of a new system of raising seedlings in special trays has come from tobacco farmers in the Limpopo Lowveld. Here, two members of a burley tobacco study group run by farmers in the Ohrigstad Valley, L Vosloo and JMF Havenga, have been astounded by the difference between seedlings grown in

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