FLUE CURING AND GRADING OF TOBACCO IN THE GUNTUR DISTRICT

Abstract

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is a native of Mexico and Brazil (Watt 1908). It gained popularity all over the world by its gradual introduction and acclimatisation. The area under the crop in the Madras Presidency is 268,815 acres, of which the Guntur Dis- trict contributes a third. The crop being an industrial one, is put to varied uses and i broadly classified into (a) cigar wrapper tobaccoes (b) cigar filler tobaccoes (c) pipe tobaccoes and (d) plug tobaccoes. Tobacco in the cured state is chiefly exported to the United States of America and is imported in the form of finished products like cigare- ttes; decoctions; active principles; medicines etc. Madras and Burma contribute their bulk quota in the export of manufactured cigars to Maldives: Straits: Ceylon and Arabia (Watt 1908.) There are three distinct classes of persons connected with the tobacco trade viz., (1) cultivators (2) curers and (3) dealers. The present article is mainly confined to the work of the second class of people though the same embraces in a way the work done by the last- mentioned class of persons.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04965

Pages

305 - 312

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Copyright

© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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