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(The Hindu) Having grown tobacco crop of a superior quality this year, more than 70,000 farmers in the State are looking forward to the auctions from September 15.
About 100 to 105 million kg of tobacco is expected to be harvested from 85,000 hectares of land, mostly in the district, and sold during the auction season that concludes in January 2015.
The Tobacco Board, which commissioned an auction platform in H.D. Kote taluk’s Shantipura village on Monday at a cost of Rs 9.5 crore, is scheduled to launch one more in Chilkunda of Hunsur taluk on October 10, taking the total number of auction platforms in the State to 13. Continued
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