Tonneins

Tonneins is a town in the Lot-et-Garonne division of south-western France. It remains over the stream Garonne, between Marmande toward the west and Agen toward the east, and is the primary real town underneath the juncture of the Lot and Garonne Rivers after which the office is named.

Until the mid 2000s, it was the tobacco capital of France. It is known for its quays close by which the tobacco freight ships were recently moored. At the point when the tobacco industrial facility shut down in 2004 and creation moved to Spain, the town was gravely influenced financially with the loss of in excess of 500 employments. The encompassing wide open still contains numerous wooden sheds, referred to locally as 'sechoirs', some time ago used to dry the tobacco leaves. The collective of Tonneins is to a great extent rural, the chief harvests presently being maize, rapeseed and sunflowers. Lasting sunflower species are not as normal in greenhouse use because of their inclination to spread quickly and become intrusive. The essential dangers are modern ranger service and pine manors in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.