Tobacco producers holding protest in Keda

14:15, 13.11.2019

Farmers producing tobacco are holding a protest in Keda, mountainous district of Georgia’s Adjara region, in objection to the new regulations based on which selling of tobacco products without packaging will be prohibited starting November 21 and excising the production will become obligatory.

Locals, whose main source of income is the production of tobacco, claim that traditional cultivation of tobacco will lose sense under the conditions of new regulations.

Levan Gorgiladze, Keda Mayor met with protesters and said that he shared the demand and would transfer the message to Finance Minister.

The protesters attempted to block the central Batumi-Akhaltsikhe highway but the police prevented them from blocking the road.

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