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Chewing Tobacco
Tamilnadu
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Planting:October end to November end
Marketing:June to August
Physical
characteristics :
Stalk-cut
plants after wilting overnight are cured in three
different manners viz. suncuring, smokecuring and
pitcuring followed by fermentation in bulks. The leaf
is large in size, medium to heavy bodied and brown
to dark brown in colour.
Chemical
characteristics :
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Sun-Cured
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Smoke-Curedd
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Pit-Cured
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Nicotine
%
Nitrogen %
Chlorides % |
3.5
- 4.5
3.0 - 4.0
3.1 - 3.5
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2.5-3.5
3.0-4.0
4.0-5.0
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3.5-4.5
2.5-3.5
2.0-3.0
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