INDIA’S DOVERSE TOBACCO LEAF SECTOR GROWS EXPORTS FAST, WHILST BOOSTING PRODUCTION QUALITY
August 26th, 2023
India’s tightly regulated tobacco leaf sector, producing the world’s second largest annual output of tobacco leaf at around 800,000 tonnes (following China and just ahead of Brazil), according to the Tobacco Board of India, is investing in modernisation to further strengthen this position, which includes a recent surge in export sales (1).
Its farmers are reforming growing techniques, cultivating more varieties and reducing tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) content to reduce carcinogenicity, said Dr Maganti Sheshu Madhav, director of the Central ...
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