Tobacco

Grading

Grading Of FCV

  • Grading is one of the important production practice in flue cured Virginia tobacco.

Grading

  • The main purpose of farm grades in black soil tobacco and plant position grades for light soil tobacco is to avoid dual grading at farmers level and traders level and thus reduce the market cost.

Plant Position Grades

  • This helps the producer to realise more income for his produce, saves time for the exporters and renders for the fixation of minimum support price and minimum export prices for each grade.

Grade specifications of traditional black soils and southern light soil tobaccos

    Traditional black soil Southern light soil
Farm I Bright lemon or orange 25% 1 to 4
Farm II Light brownish yellow or brownish lemon 25% LBY
Farm III Light brown 50% LBY 2
Farm IV Brown 50% Brown
Farm V Dark brown 50% Dark Brown
Farm VI Light greenish orange 25% LG
Farm VII Light medium green 25% LMG
Farm VIII Medium green   MG
Farm IX Dark green   DG
Farm X Colour may range from orange, yellow green or brown   PL, Bits

Plant position grades for Northern light soils Tobacco

P10 P1L P1J x 10 x 1L x 1J L10 L1L L1J T20 T2L T2J
P20 P2L P2J x 20 x 2L x 1J L20 L2L L2J T30 T3L T3J
P30 P3L P3J x 30 x3L x1J L30 L3L L3J T40 T4J T4R
P40 P4L P4J x 40 x1L x1J L40 L4L L4J T50 T5J T5R
P40 P5L P5J x 50 x1L x1J L50 L5R L5L L5L  
BGBMG     TGTMG
    NDMNDD  

Where 1 to 5 denote increasing percentage of blemish

  1. 1. upto 20%
  2. 2. upto 20 – 30%
  3. 3. upto 30 – 35%
  4. 4. upto 35 – 80%
  5. 5. for more than 80% blemish

  • p: Priming, X : Lugs, L: Cutters and Leaf T: Tips
  • L : Lemon colour, O : Orange colour
  • G : Green colour, J: Immature tobacco
  • BG : Bottom green, BMG : Bottom medium green
  • TG : Top green, TMG : Top medium green
  • R : Mahogany colour, NDD : Non-descript (perished leaf) dark

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Grading Of Non FCV Tobacco

HD burley

Hd burley is graded priming wise only as bottom, middle and top leaf. Under each category , two types of grades are given

WBR : Bright tan coloured with less blemish, good body and fully matured lengthy leaves

WBL : Lower short leaves with buff colouration, weak body, moderately blemish and fairly shattery.

Burley tobacco grades

WBF : Flyings

WBB : Bottom leaves

WBM : Middle leaves

WBT : Top leaves

ND : Non descriptive

Lanka Tobacco

1.Kotaku: Top two well developed leaves of the plant.

2.Baraku: Next two well developed leaves

3.Mattasam: The next two or three middle leaves.

4.Gulla or Tepa: Lower leaves poor in body and size.

Bidi tobacco grading

There is no standard system of grading bidi tobacco at present, except for the sorting of the produce into four fractions which have alresdy been refered to as

  • Bhuka
  • Geran
  • Galia
  • Lakada

Bidi tobacco sample is valued on the basis of

  • It's physical charectes, viz., colour, thickness, spanling of the leaf, granulation, brightness or lusture
  • It's smoking qualities

Oriental tobacco graging

HAB Comprises of Outches/Outches Alti and best of 'Annas' bodies pliable with lemon / Orange, running green and light brown colours. Length 1.5" to 5".
HB Thinner bodied, pliable, lemon/orange to lemony. Length less than 7".
HK
Thinner bodied, brown, hard green, shattery leaf with varying lengths upto 8.5".

Suncured natu tobacoo grading

K-CDK Medium to heavy-bodied leaf, oily, brown to dark brown in colour
K-CBR Medium bodied, oily, nut brown in colour.
K-CG
Thin to medium bodied, light green to dark green, devoid of oils

Light soil burley tobacco

RBA
 Blend of flyings and lugs of first quality. Buff in colour, fluffier tobaccos
RBB
 Blend of flyings and lugs of second quality. Fluffier tobaccos deep buff in colour.
RBC
Blend of flyings and lugs of third quality. Fluffier tobaccos deep buff to light tan in colour.
RBROC
 Blend of flyings, lugs, cutters, leaf and tips of second and third quality. Light to medium bodied tobaccos buff to light tan in colour. Plain to spotted having reasonable flavour.

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