The Federation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA), which claims to represent farmers of commercial crops from various states, includi...

Indian farmers, who largely cultivate Virginia tobacco, may get some 5% better realisation for their produce this time as against the over ...

Tobacco cultivation has taken a hit this year in the prime belt of Karnataka due to patchy monsoon, pushing up auction prices, which may im...

Tobacco Board has decided to impose more penalty on farmers engaged in unauthorised cultivation of tobacco in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The government will impose a hefty penalty of 15 per cent of sale proceeds if farmers produce more export quality tobacco than the quota al...

There was a plan to phase out the country’s tobacco crop.

China’s State Tobacco Monopoly Authority (STMA) is expected to send a team next month to visit the platforms where Karnataka Light Soil Flu...

Andhra Pradesh’s 50,000 growers of Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV and smoked in cigarettes) tobacco have never had it so good.

Around 50,000 tobacco growers in Andhra Pradesh have never had it so good with the cumulative realisations for 2007-08 skyrocketing by Rs 6...

Even as the Union commerce ministry has been talking for the last few months about a 10-year plan to phase out cultivation of the Flue-Cure...

Some five weeks after talking about an action-plan to phase out cultivation of tobacco, Union minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh ...

Cigarette smokers may have to pay a cess of 5 paise for each stick they light, if a proposal of the Commerce Ministry to shift tobacco grow...

The product - which is a health hazard when processed and smoked - has in a crop form sustained a substantial part of the rural economy in ...