CHEWING TOBACCO RUSTICA TOBACCO(CALCUTTA)

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1.Planting                 : October-November
2.Marketing                : April to june
3.Production               : In Gujarat
3.Physical Characteristics : 
			     The primed leaf is sun-cured and later bulked.
                             The leaf is medium to heavy bodied and greenish 
                             brown to dark brown in color.	
                             Also called Calcutta tobacco.		
4.Chemical Characteristics : 
	a)Total Nitrogen % : 3.5 - 5.0
	b)Nicotine %       : 1.6 to 3.6
5.Economical use           : Used as chewing tobacco,hookah tobacco, 
                             for tobacco sheet  makeing for kreteks
                             in indonesia,pipe mixtures  and cigarette
                             blending to some extent.