• Planting : Mid-October to November 1st week
• Marketing : April to May
• Harvesting and curing/ Physical Charecteristics : The leaf is shade-cured. Cured leaf is large in size, thin bodied, light brown with greenish tinge and with light veins in the lamina.
• Fact File : Mainly used as cigar wrapper

• Nicotine % :  0.6 to 1.0 (BL) 0.8 to 1.2 (ML) 1.3 to 1.6 (TL)
• Reducing Sugars % : 3.0 to 3.3 (BL) 3.3 to 3.7 (ML) 4.5 to 4.9 (TL)
• Chloride % : 2.2 to 2.4 (BL) 5.4 to 5.6 (ML) 3.4 to 3.6 (TL)

(BL - Bottom Leaf, ML-Middle Leaf, TL - Top Leaf)