The International Tobacco Growers Association to protest the fifth meeting of the FCTC Parties

The International Tobacco Growers Association (the ITGA The) on October 29, said it supports four continents proposed protest against the FCTC "The Association believes that this convention will take away the livelihood of tobacco growers.

Antonio A Bulun Hausa, CEO of the International Tobacco Growers Association, said in a statement released by PR Newswire, growers are very concerned about restrictions on land for the cultivation of tobacco and the proposed provisions of the planting season. According to the International Tobacco Growers Association, said, "FCTC" despite the economic feasibility of other crops, forced growers to plant other crops measures. The International Tobacco Growers Association, said dozens of global tobacco growers Day theme of activities they have planned for October 29.

 Representatives from 176 countries will be on November 12 in Seoul, South Korea held the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the FCTC, discuss various tobacco control measures, including a discussion of how Member States to guide farmers to grow substitutability crops suggestions.