Tobacco Production and Consumption in India and Burma

J. Barnard Gibbs

No 374847, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excerpt from p. 410 of Volume 82 of the Experiment Station Record: Information regarding the origin, development, and trends in tobacco production and consumption, the economic, soil, and climate factors affecting production, classes and types of tobacco grown, grading and marketing, imports and exports, manufacture and consumption of pipe and chewing tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, snuff, cheroots, etc., tobacco taxes, etc., is brought together and discussed. The last section of the report includes a number of statements of the significance to the tobacco farmers of the United States of the possible trends during the next few years in India and Burma in tobacco production, consumption, imports, and exports. Appendixes include statistics as to tobacco exports from and imports into India, including Burma, the text of a sample contract between flue-cured tobacco grower and the Indian Leaf Tobacco Development Company, Ltd., and rules for grading and marking Indian tobacco established under the authority of The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marketing) Act, 1937.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital; Marketing; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.374847

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