Prefecture Strives to Increase Development, Production of Quality Leaf Tobacco

Source from:  TobaccoChina Online 05/03/2011

Dali Prefecture - a high quality leaf tobacco producing region in southwest China's Yunnan Province - has recently adopted a series of plans and measures to improve the structure of its leaf tobacco products, and increase the development and production of high-quality leaf tobacco products, contributing to steadily promoting the growing and State purchase of high-quality leaf tobacco in the region. It was reported that Dali Prefecture has launched full-scale efforts to improve the structure of its leaf tobacco products, and sharply increase the proportion of high-grade leaf tobacco in all leaf tobacco products, with the State purchase price of high-grade leaf tobacco revised up by 12 percent. Meanwhile, the prefecture has adopted measures to appropriately dispose of unsuitable leaf tobacco, in lowering the average unit output by improving the structure of leaf tobacco products, and increasing the quality of leaf tobacco products. It is expected the whole of Dali Prefecture will dispose of some 156,000 tons of unsuitable leaf tobacco in the fields. Besides, Dali Prefecture has managed to increase to some extent the investment and subsidies in leaf tobacco production in the region. In particular, it is planning to extend 150 yuan (23 U.S. dollars) in each dan (50 kilograms) of medium-grade Hongda (Red Large) leaf tobacco with unique local characteristics, and 188 yuan (29 U.S. dollars) in each dan (50 kilograms) of high-grade leaf tobacco, with the total amount of subsidies reaching 147 million yuan (22.6 million U.S. dollars). On the basis of implementing plans for improving the structure of its leaf tobacco products, Dali Prefecture will focus its leaf tobacco production work on the adoption of measures to improve the structure of leaf tobacco growing acreages in the region, preparedness for fighting natural disasters, preparation of cultivated land for tobacco growing, allocation of material supplies for tobacco production, establishment of model units for the development of a modern tobacco agriculture in the region, and production of Hongda (Red Large) leaf tobacco with unique local characteristics. Enditem