About Dimbulah
Dimbulah is a town and locality in Far North
Queensland, Australia, 114 kilometres (71 mi) from
Cairns by road, on the Atherton Tableland. It is
within the local government area of Shire of
Mareeba (between 2008 and 2013, it was within
the Tablelands Region). At the 2011 census,
Dimbulah had a population of 1,414.
Dimbulah is on the railway line to Chillagoe. In
1928, tobacco was introduced to the town, which
became the area's major industry. There were
over 800 growers in Dimbulah at the height of the
industry's success, producing over 60 percent of
the national yield. Tobacco farming waned when
the government ordered it so, but farming
alternative crops like mangoes, sugarcane,
lemons, coffee, avocados and many others
remains part of the town's industry.