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Yes, it does, but I'm not suggesting it be a permanent crop, marsoe. I'm suggesting that when life gives you lemons (or, y'know, mine-detecting tobacco), you make lemonade (use the tobacco to make yourself a bit of money to recoup the cost of planting).
RE the plant's efficacy: It gets the mines that mechanical clearing doesn't find. Besides, mines aren't exactly kept in the best condition/manufactured to the strictest specifications. I'd bet that it can detect a fair number of mines.

Last I checked, the plant was oversensitive, I'm confident flawed mines would be picked up.

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So who's gonna volunteer to walk out into the minefield and plant the tobacco?

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I volunteer for this task as long as I get plenty of tobaccy for smoking, you need to be smoking something to walk into a minefield and plant them.

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That's exactly what I was thinking, how the heck is someone supposed to plant tobacco without accidentally blowing themselves up?

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lol thats a really nice idea ^^

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The tobacco could be spread via air, or planted at the perimeter of a suspected minefield and then allowed to grow in by natural methods.

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As long as they're aware, there's not alot of danger. They just need to stay out of newly dug earth. Better question; How exactly are they going to find the minefield? Isn't it too late when they have found it?

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It's too late for the first person/cow/vehicle. It isn't too late for everyone else.

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Interesting (even if it's old news, I never heard of it before) thugh why a tabacco plant??

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Tobacco is a big plant, so it is visible from afar, it grows well, and it is fairly hardy.