Drying tobacco requires barns. A lot of wood is chopped down to make these barns. Termites eat them up so after a few short years the farmer has to chop down more trees. A lot of work, and it creates deforestation. JTI promotes "live barns": when a tree is alive the termites cannot eat it. So you grow the trees where you need posts for your barn, and you wait 4 years. Then the trees are big enough, and you make a barn from the live trees. No termites, less maintenance, and no deforestation. JTI grows seedlings for these trees in a nursery, and I went there to photograph their efforts. Unknown to me, some other person handled a camera, too. Here I am.
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