 |
|
|||
|
|
|
Handbook of Tobacco Statistics 2000
|
||
|
Tobacco is a principal cash crop of National importance. It has been playing a prominent role in the development of the Nation's Economy. Although the cultivation of Tobacco is restricted to 0.3% of the total cultivated area, it provides employment to a large number of people on the one hand. On the other hand, it makes significant contribution to National Exchequer by way of excise revenue and foreign exchange earnings. Tobacco being a labour intensive crop provides employment to more than 60 lakhs people who are engaged in the farming curing, redrying, packaging, grading, manufacturing distribution, export and retailing activities. The bidi industry which provides employment to around 44.00 lakhs essentially unskilled rural folks, mostly women, is also arresting the influx of rural labour to urban centres. |
||||
|
All the website contents are provided and maintained by
Site Designed & Hosted by: NIC Chennai |
||||
