1.   Can the end of American tobacco farming as we know it be close at hand?

2.   If the federal program ends, thousands will be flushed from tobacco farming.

3.   It was once best known as the epicenter of tobacco farming, cigarette manufacturing and big-time Southern college basketball.

4.   It will hurt his warehouse business and creates an uncertain future for his tobacco farming.

5.   Like other tobacco growers in the Connecticut Valley, Louis Klimoski knows that tobacco farming can be a high-stakes gamble.

6.   One involves the kind of assistance that would be given to tobacco farmers and to communities whose economy is dependent on tobacco farming and cigarette manufacturing.

7.   Terminating the federal program would change the face of tobacco farming, the economists agree.

8.   The low wages and seasonal nature of jobs in tobacco farming have discouraged most local workers from taking them.

9.   If not for the subsidy scheme organised by the Government, tobacco farming would not have gathered such a devoted following within the farming community.

10.   The accord will also tackle issues including international trade, package labeling and encouraging alternatives to tobacco farming.