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Tobacco in South India.By W.R.C. Paul.M.A.D.I.S.M.Sc.F.L.S.(Trop Agri.LXXXVII p.3).This Crop was first introduced by the Portuguese in the 16th century.Its cultuvation was restricted to dark,and strong flavoured types and as such there was no or very little export in the early period.In order to meet the demand of the mild flavoured light tobacco on the United kingdom.efforts ere made in the direction of introducion of new types.methods of growing and curing.Madras Presidency occupies second largest position in India with on area of 292,000 acres and outturn of 286,000,000 lb of cured leaf out of the total area of 1,350,000 acres and production of 1,000,000,000 lb.leaf respectively.The different kinds of tobacco grown may be grouped under (a)smoking (b)chewing (c)snuff.Dark tobaccos are strong flavoured and are used in the manufacture of cigars.cheroots,chewing and snuffing.Light tobaccos are generlly associated with mild flavour and comprise cigarettes.pipe mixtures and beedies.The light tobacco industry has developed during recent years due largely to the efforts of the Indian Leaf Tobacco company,and Guntur District forms the chief centre of its cultivation with about 40,000 acres under the virginian variety Harrison's special.The flue cured Virginia is used for manufacturing standard brand cigarette while the sun-curred stuff and the finer country types are mostly used in blending the innumerable other cheaper brands and pipe tobaccos,and are exported to United Kingdom and Japan.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002198

Pages

376 - 376

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© The Author(s), 2026. 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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