### Question
How does TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS TO TOBACCO QUOTA HOLDERS AND PRODUCERS OF TOBACCO define producer of quota tobacco?


### Answer
Under *7 U.S.C. § 518*, **producer of quota tobacco** is defined as:

> an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shared in the risk of producing tobacco on a farm where tobacco was produced or considered planted pursuant to a tobacco farm poundage quota or farm acreage allotment established under part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.)

#### Citation:
  - *7 U.S.C. § 518*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 21C-TOBACCO REFORM > SUBCHAPTER I-TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS TO TOBACCO QUOTA HOLDERS AND PRODUCERS OF TOBACCO**

