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$55,296,425Fast Facts
The tobacco industry provides more than 52,000 jobs statewide, creating an estimated $2 billion in compensation.
Local, state and federal treasuries receive more than $2 billion in annual tax revenues from the tobacco industry, including consumer excise and sales taxes as well as personal and corporate income taxes.
Georgia ranks fifth nationally in growing, warehousing, manufacturing and trading both wholesale and retail tobacco and tobacco products.
Tobacco provides returns up to $2,500 or more per acre.
Colquitt and Coffee counties are two of the most productive tobacco-producing counties in Georgia.
Georgia Agricultural Resources: Commodity Facts
Tobacco
Tobacco has been an important part of Georgia agriculture for more than 200 years. The crop helped establish the state as a valuable exporting colony, rescued farmers from the boll weevil and has proven its dependability as a marketable crop, adding millions of dollars to the state's agricultural revenues.
Georgia is known for its superior flue-cured tobacco, the primary ingredient in blended cigarettes.
More than 26,500 acres were devoted to tobacco production in 2001, with production totaling 64.4 million pounds.
Georgia's tobacco industry involves more than growing tobacco. From the farm to the manufacturer to the retail store, with suppliers and related businesses in between, the tobacco industry provides jobs in virtually every sector and in every corner of Georgia.
Georgia's Tobacco Auction Warehouses
| Alma | |
| South Georgia Golden Leaf | 912/632-7887 |
| Alma Brightleaf Tobacco Warehouse | 912/632-7312 |
| Blackshear | |
| Farmers Tobacco Warehouse | 912/449-3940 |
| Big Z & Planters Warehouse | 912/449-5331 |
| Claxton | |
| Farmers Tobacco Warehouse | 912/739-3081 |
| Douglas | |
| Growers Tobacco Warehouse | 912/384-7600 |
| Tri-County Tobacco Warehouse | 912/383-9460 |
| Planters | 912/384-7600 |
| Fitzgerald | |
| Gold Leaf Warehouse | 229/468-7778 |
| Hahira | |
| Hahira Tobacco Sales | 229/794-2450 |
| Moultrie | |
| H & R Tobacco Warehouse | 229/890-3301 |
| South Ga Tobacco Growers | 229/985-5586 |
| Pidcock Tobacco Warehouse | 229/985-1507 |
| Cole Tobacco Warehouse | 229/985-8515 |
| Nashville | |
| Perkins Warehouses | 229/686-2553 |
| Planters Warehouse | 229/686-2256 |
| Pelham | |
| Pelham Tobacco Warehouse | 912/294-7000 |
| Statesboro | |
| Brannen's Tobacco | 912/764-3930 |
| Tifton | |
| Growers Tobacco Warehouse | 229/382-8540 |
| Valdosta | |
| Roy Pearce's Tobacco Warehouses | 229/244-8110 |
| Vidalia | |
| Farmers Tobacco Warehouse | 229/526-6629 |
| Brick Tobacco Warehouse | 229/537-4383 |
More Information
- Georgia Agricultural Commision for Tobacco: 912/386-3468, Executive Director Virginia Baker
- Georgia Tobacco Hotline, 1-800-659-7288, for general info about current tobacco news
- Georgia Tobacco Warehouse Association: 912/985-1507, Pres. Dane Perkins
- Georgia Tobacco Superfund: 404/463-4390
- University of Georgia Tobacco Page
- Tobacco Links from the UGA College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences