Cuba’s tobacco production dropped from 46,000 to 5,000 metric tons within two years.

Evidence

In 1978, before the blue mold crisis, Cuba produced 46,000 metric tons of tobacco. The 1980 crop was down to 5,000 metric tons. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 120

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 120