Tobacco Production Technology

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Presentation
Topic: TOBACCO
Presented By: Aown Abbas
Roll No.46
Class B.Sc(HONS.)Agriculture 2013-17
Presented To: Dr. Ijaz Ahmad
College of Agriculture BZU Bahadur Sub-Campus
LAYYAH

3. Content
 Nomenclature
 Scientific name
 Family
 English name
 Botany.
 Stem , Leaves Root , Flower
 Medicinal Uses.
 Production Technology
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4. Tobacco
 Tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum
 Huka Tobacco :
Nicotiana rustica
 Family:
Solanaceae
English Name
Tobacco
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5. Economic importance
 Tobacco is an important cash crop of Pakistan and brings
in a considerable amount of foreign exchange.
 It is source of employment for thousands of people who are
involved with producing marketing and cigarette
manufacturing.
 Tobacco stem contains 0.14% of nicotine which is used as
insecticides.
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6. Botany of tobacco
 Stem
 Root
 Leaves
 Flowers
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7. STEM
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 Stem erect, round, hairy, and
viscid
 It branches near the top and
is from 3 to 6 feet high
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8. ROOT
 Tobacco is an annual plant
with a long fibrous root
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9. Leaves
 Color pale green
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10. Flowers
 Pale white color of
flower
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11. History
Origin
 Native American of north 3000BC
 The origin of tobacco production in Pakistan (formerly
Hindustan ) dates to the reign of emperor Akbar .
 Now a days tobacco is grown in Attack , Sialkot , Peshawar ,
Narwhal , Sahiwal etc.
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12. Medicinal Uses of Tobacco
 To purify mind & heal the body.
 Heal the pain of toothache.
 To treat earaches
 Snakebites.
 Ringworms
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13. Medicinal Uses of Tobacco
 Headaches.
 Uses for breeding.
 Kidney stone.
 Old score cancer.
 Epilepsy
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14. Disease of tobacco
 Mouth cancer
 Heart attack
 Lunges cancer
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15. Disease of tobacco
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.Tuber culosis

16. Disease of tobacco
 Lip cancer
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 Asthma
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 Yellowing of teeth
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Production Technology of Tobacco

18. Field Preparation
 4-5 Ploughing followed by planking.
 After Ploughing the field is divided into small plots.
 Leveling is necessary.
 Then ridges are made.
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19. Raising of Nursery
 Light loam soil.
 Nursery bed should be located in well drained soil close to the
fresh water sources.
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 Bed should be east –west orientation.
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20. Transplanting of nursery
 Ideal time for transplanting of nursery is Nev-Dec
 Transplanting is done manually by hands.
 Transplanting is done in standing water.
 One seedling is enough for one hill.
 Nursery should be transplant in morning or evening.
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21. Bed sterilization
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 To make the soil free from soil borne diseases sterilization is
necessary.
 There are Two Method of sterilization.
 Burning
 Chemicals

22. Time and seed rate
 Best time for nursery raising is oct- nov 15.
 The 25 to 30 g seed is enough for raising nursery for one
hactare.
 Nursery should be transplanted after 2 to 3 months.
 Fertilizer is given to nursery before 7-10 day of transplanting.
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23. Soil and Climate
 Tobacco needs well drained , light to medium texture soil with
ph 5 - 5-7.
 The limiting factors in tobacco production are frost , early
moon soon rains , wind storms hailstorms and non availability
of irrigation water.
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24. Important varieties
KPK :
Sufaid and kala patta
Punjab :
Naki , calcatta , SL-78 , SL-75
Sindh :
Rubaki Rustica-6
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25. Fertilizer application & irrigation
 Nitrogen
 The optimum dose of N is 35 kg/ha.
 Phosphorus.
 The optimum dose of P is 70 kg/ha.
 8-10 irrigations are enough for tobacco.
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26. Insect and Diseases
 Cut worms
 jassid are important insect of tobacco.
 Diseases.
 Tobacco mosaic.
 Root rot.
 Leaf Spot.
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27. Intercultural & weeding
 Tobacco competes poorly with weeds.
 So weeding is done manually.
 Hoeing.
 Hoeing is done to keep the soil aerated and to control
weeds.
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28. Topping and Desuckering
 Topping in tobacco is the removal of terminal bud just after the
appearance of flowers head.
 The Removal of suckers (forth shoots ) is known as
desuckering.
 Suckers could be controlled by suckericide.
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29. Harvesting Drying and Curing
 After maturity harvesting is done manually.
 Crop is dried for 2-3 days.
 Curing.
 Curing is a process in which dried crop is collected and
buried in a pit for 10-15 days.
 Then ropes are made.
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31. Yield
 The leaf yield of huka tobacco is 2500-3000 kg /ha.
 The leaf yield of cigarette tobacco is 2000 kg/ha.
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