Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has extended its purchase agreement for tobacco leaf from the Extremadura region for three years, the company said.

Extremadura, which abuts the border with Portugal, grows more than 90 per cent of the 32,000 tons of annual leaf production in Spain. JTI makes Camel and Winston at a facility the company described as the largest tobacco manufacturing plant in the country.
"This Memorandum of Understanding reaffirms our long term support to the innovative local tobacco growing sector and the quality of the leaf which meets our worldwide standards", said Vassilis Vovos, JTI president for the Western European region.