Tobacco Operations: Basic Activities From Seedbeds To Leaf Packing
Tobacco Operations: Basic Activities From Seedbeds To Leaf Packing
Tobacco Operations: Basic Activities From Seedbeds To Leaf Packing
Basic Activities
From Seedbeds
to
Leaf Packing
Tobacco Operations .. ..
• Tobacco
• Flue-cured tobacco is a major agricultural commodity upon
which thousands of farmers and related agri-business people
depend for most on significant part of their livelihood.
• Marketing of Tobacco
• FCV : Cigarette Type FCV (Flue Cured Virginia) Tobacco is
sold through Auctions conducted by the Tobacco Board which
is statutory body under Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India
• OTHERS : Cigarette Type non-FCV tobacco and non-cigarette
type tobacco is directly bought from the farmers by Traders /
Manufacturers / Exporters
NURSERY PLANTATION HARVESTING CURING FARM GRADING
TAPS FCV
CLASSIFICATION TOBACCO
TRADE
BPs NON FCV
EXPORT
SALES
STORAGES INTERNAL SHIPMENTS
SHIPMENTS
DOMESTIC
SALES
• First process in which the
TOBACCO SEEDBED seeds are sown and seedlings
raised for transplantation in
the main field
• Plantation : Type of
extensive farm in the
tobacco industry,
consisting of large estates
owned by one person or
business using permanent
employees, who lived
there to grow tobacco on a
large scale.
TYING – HARVESTED LEAF • Process in which ripe leaves of
the plant are plucked for further
processing .
• Usually the leaves in the lower
plant positions are harvested
first. Upper plant positions are
harvested later.
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DEALER BUY
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REDRYING :
• A process wherein leaf / strips / lamina is redried and uniform
moisture applied. This enhances longevity of Tobaccos Quality
for further Processing.
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STRIPPING:
• Stripping is a process wherein MID-RIB of
each leaf (STEM) is removed from the
remaining part of the leaf is called STRIPS
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BUTTING:
• Butting is a process where in lower portion of
the MID-RIB of each leaf is removed
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INDIAN CIGERETTE TOBACCO
VARITIES & CROPS
CIGERETTE TOBACCO
KUENO O L
MYS TELANGANA
(NATU)
Note : FCV (Flue Cured Virginia) is called as VFC (Virginia Flue Cured) also 1818
NURSERY PLANTATION HARVESTING CURING FARM GRADING
TAPS FCV
CLASSIFICATION TOBACCO
TRADE
BPs NON FCV
EXPORT
SALES
STORAGES INTERNAL SHIPMENTS
SHIPMENTS
DOMESTIC
SALES
Some of the Abbreviations
used in the Tobacco Operations
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LIST OF TOBACCO AUCTION PLANTFORMS
(To be updated as and when Tobacco Board opens a new TAP)
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