Tobacco is considered a Golden Leaf which is an important cash crop of Bangladesh.

1. WELCOME
Salman Bin Firoz
Md. Nahin Chowdhury Abir
Nadrin Sultana Sorme
P R E S E N T S

2. WELCOME
Salman Bin Firoz

3. Tobacco Farming

4. types
Oriental
The Golden Leaf
is an important
cash crop of
BANGLADESH

5. Leaf Stem Roots
Flower Dry leaf Tobacco Cigarette
A Plant
with a
Global
Presence

6. Let’s know
Growing
Cultivation
Harvesting
Curing
Grading
Stabilizing

7. Air-curing for Burley Sun-curing for Oriental Flue-curing for Virginia
Curing
plays a major role in defining the
leaf's final quality & character

8. Tobacco cultivation
Bangladesh
Jati : Rangpur
Motihari : Bandarban
Virginia : Kushtia, Rangpur
Jessore, Dhaka
The types tobacco
and areas of cultivation:

9. Land coverage for cultivation:
Rangpur – 40,345acres
Kushtia – 22,241 acres
Bandarban – 4,678 acres
Extending Jessore, Jhenaidah, Nilphamari,
Lalmonirhat , Manikganj and Tangail.
Amount of tobacco cultivation:
Virginia - 22,277metric tons
Jati - 8,437metric tons
Motihari - 9,270metric tons

10. Growers of
tobacco cultivation:
Lease land for tobacco cultivation
Card holder or 'card dhari’
Contract for one year

12.  Companies taking advantage of poverty
 Input & market supply from the company
 Insufficient supply of inputs for other crops
 Unstable price & market for other crops
 Neglect of department of agriculture extension (DAE)
 Company card system policy
 Health issues of farmers

13. ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
OF TOBACCO
Earning from tobacco export
Earning source of farmers
Source of employment
Tobacco stem used as insecticide

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