Workers Participate In The Annual Tobacco Harvest In Extremadura

JARANDILLA DE LA VERA, SPAIN - AUGUST 14: Dark tobacco plants hang upside down inside a traditional tobacco drying warehouse during the tobacco harvest on August 14, 2014 near Jarandilla de la Vera, in Extreamdura region, Spain. There is one team of workers left who still do the Virginia tobacco harvest manually. Spain is the third biggest producer of tobacco in Europe. Around 90 percent of Spanish tobacco is grown in Extremadura, providing an income to around 20,000 families in the region. In recent years tobacco farming in Extremadura has started to mechanize, becoming more competitive but also leading to the loss of manual labour jobs. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)