In having to decide on flue-cured tobacco crop sizes, India’s Tobacco Board regularly finds itself between a rock and a hard place; as it has in setting the new Karnataka target. Read More
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A group of health experts has petitioned the High Court of Bombay in an effort to force the Indian government to divest its tobacco interests.Read More
The shortness of the flue-cured tobacco crop in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh seems to have pushed the average grower price up to a more satisfactory level than that of last season.Read More
Manufacturers in India have been required since the beginning of this month to include a new set of health warnings on their packaging.Read More
Observers in Andhra Pradesh, India, are attributing a rise in grower prices for flue-cured leaf to the fact that the tobacco acreage was down, which seems to give the lie to the idea that prices Read More
T. Venkatesh has assumed charge as executive director of the Tobacco Board of India.Read More
After two years of heavy losses, tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh, India, are simply looking to ‘scrape through’ this year’s sales season.Read More
The Tobacco Board looks set to be merged with four other commodity boards in India with the aim of boosting exports of tobacco, tea, coffee, rubber and spices.Read More
Factories in the Indian state of Mizoram producing a local form of oral tobacco have been closed because of concerns over water pollution.Read More
A story reporting a decline in the average flue-cured tobacco price in the Indian state of Karnataka gave no reason why the decline had occurred. Read More