We did not record abazi (trees) for the project, because we would have to take too many records on the field, and the team decided to focus on herbaceous plants and shrubs
Before inspection, tobacco could be shipped from any wharf, and the quality of the exported tobacco was unregulated
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This may provide the rationale for the healers declared supremacy of the plant (royal plant), which is in line with ethnographic accounts of tobaccos central role in Amazonian healing (e.g., father of all plants) and in the etymology of the healer-term in indigenous Amazonian languages (e.g., he who eats tobacco), as outlined in the introductory section (Shepard, 1998
The company doesn't have too much debt and is very good at turning profits into surplus cash in order to pay higher dividends