Vijayawada: Chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday directed the agriculture officials and the Real Time Governance ...

This fall, the burley tobacco auction season that will open on Tuesday will bypass the cavernous metal structure for the first time since it opened in the 1920s. "It's just like a ghost," said the ...

N. Chandrababu Naidu prioritizes scientific crop planning, market trends, and farmer income protection in Andhra Pradesh.

He set an ambitious target for companies like GPI and ITC to procure 20 million kg of HD Burley tobacco at Rs 12,500 per quintal, based on quality. To enforce accountability, he directed the ...

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed the Agriculture Department to prioritise scientific crop planning aligned with global and domestic market trends to protect farmers from losses.

“The HD (honghua dajiyuan) Burley variety of tobacco must be purchased by companies at Rs12,500 per quintal based on quality. GPI and ITC must immediately begin procurement of 20 million k ...

If you drove up Ohio 7 toward Gallipolis, or along almost any back road in Gallia or Lawrence counties, you would see patches, large or small, of burley tobacco, one of three varieties used in ...

While the market for burley tobacco used in cigarettes has declined, the market for dark fire tobacco used in cigars and pipes remains strong. Despite the overall decline, tobacco farming persists ...

It is a sad story. Extremely sad because the story is being told 20 years after the end of The Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative and 50 years after my father and others first sought to bring ...