TOBACCO PRODUCTION
INCREASE IN NEW ZEALAND
Although the cultivation of tobacco leaf on a commercial basis was initiated only comparatively recently in New Zealand, the industry has made marked progress, and growers are becoming increasingly familiar with the methods and plant required for the production of cured leaf acceptable to the manufacturers. Commercial growing is confined to those to whom licenses are issued by the Tobacco Board to control the. industry.
Most of the tobacco produced is flue-cured, producing a yellow leaf tobacco: which is largely used for the manufacture of cigarettes, the balance (which is air-cured) is used mainly in the"manufacture of smoking mixture and pipe tobacco. During 1942-43 96 per cent, was fluecured and only 4 per cent., air cured. A total of 2443 acres was under production in 1942-43.
The total leaf purchased from growers was 3 185,1831b. New Zealanders are now smoking more of their own tobacco than ever before.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 40, 16 January 1945, Page 5
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154TOBACCO PRODUCTION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 40, 16 January 1945, Page 5
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