Loading The Tobacco Year in Zawtar…
The farming year for the village's cash crop — when the seedbeds are sown, the plants go out, the leaves are picked and cured, and the Régie takes delivery and pays. With a clear-your-field-first safety note.
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Tobacco is Zawtar's cash crop — grown under a licence and sold to the state Régie. One thing comes before all of it: after the war, a field can look normal and still hold unexploded ordnance. Do not work land until a clearance team has released it — see the town's unexploded-ordnance page first.
It's August
Harvests: Tobacco (تبغ / توتون)
dry season
The village's main crop, grown under a Régie licence and sold to the state monopoly at a guaranteed price. Most of it is the sun-cured leaf the south is known for.
Source: Régie Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs — tobacco plantation in Lebanon; reporting on the southern tobacco season, checked 4 July 2026 (last month).
sowing harvest
rainy season dry season frost risk
How the crop is watered
Southern tobacco is grown mostly on winter and spring rain, with hand-watering of the seedbeds and young plants where a farmer has water. There is no community canal schedule to publish — watering is each farmer's own. This page describes the usual pattern of the year, not a water timetable.
These are the usual months, not a fixed calendar — the season shifts a little year to year with the weather, and it varies from field to field. The war has disrupted it badly: unexploded ordnance, damaged land and lost access have cut the southern crop, and some fields cannot be worked at all until they are cleared. Treat this as the shape of a normal year to plan around, and confirm the Régie's dates each season.
Source: Régie Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs (tobacco plantation guide and Farmer Service); reporting on the southern tobacco season (Tobacco Reporter, The New Arab, Al-Modon, Society for Cultural Anthropology). Compiled by Town Tools., checked 4 July 2026 (last month).
Harvest: Tobacco (تبغ / توتون)
in August