Abstract

Tobacco Industry of India" published in this Journal. July 1934, there have been some enquiries from tracts of probable suitability for growing cigarette tobaccos. The enquirers want to know whether there are any methods to find out whether the tobaccc of a particular tract is suitable for cigarette purposes before they can commit themselves to the construction of costly flue-curing barns. In reply to this enquiry the following information is furnished with the hope of kindling greater and wider interest in the trial of cigarette tobaccos. In view of the co-ordinated programme of research on tobacco under the aegis of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research in all the provinces, the possibilities of all the tobacco-growing tracts of a province have to be thoroughly explored and for this purpose the provision of only a pair of flue-curing barns in each province by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research may not be found adequate to tackle all the tracts. Hence the necessity and importance of such methods cannot be over-emphasized. Even if the tobacco were to be unsuitable for cigarette purposes we do yet require some methods of finding whether the tobacco of a particular tract can be cured for ex- port because we find that a large quantity of Indian exports is used in the manufacture of pipe tobaccos.

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