Rajahmundry: In a significant step towards sustainable agriculture, the ICAR-National Institute for Research on Commercial ...

“The curing process for dark-fired tobacco requires tobacco leaves to be subjected to smoke from a smoldering wood fire,” officials added.

When the leaves of the tobacco plant are mature and ready for harvest, they are gathered and first laid on the ground to wilt -- that is, to wither and lose their brittleness. This done ...

For both cigar and cigarette makers, man-made leaf means a big cut in the cost of handling, grading and curing tobacco. Cigar makers who have switched to HTL binder can use imperfect broad-leaf ...

For tobacco leaves to turn from green to yellow, small-scale farmer Juru uses firewood to burn them in homemade barns in a process known as curing, which removes moisture from tobacco using ...

THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) has launched a nationwide fire prevention campaign to protect fast-growing ...

The leaves were then stored in pack barns, graded for quality, and sent to auction. Flue-cure tobacco barns were retrofitted with oil and gas burners after World War II and fell into disuse with ...