Dark Cigarette
- Planting : Monsoon Crop: Mid-August -1st week of September,
Winter Crop: Mid-September to Mid-November
- Marketing : Monsoon Crop: February to March
Winter Crop: April to June
- Harvesting and curing/ Physical Charecteristics : Cured under strictly controlled temperature and humidity regimes to ensure that chemical changes proceed to the desired point but no further. Practically all starch changed to sugar. 6-8 day curing time. Cured leaf is bright lemon, orange or mahogany.
- Color : Nut Brown
- Leaf size : Medium to heavy
- Pore Volume : 0.07 to 0.20
- Filling Values(cc/gm) : 3.8 to 5.8
- Nicotine % : 1.0 to 3.25
- Reducing Sugars % : 3.0 to 9.0
- Chloride % : 0.5 to 2.00
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