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D-flue-cured-tobacco Dictionary

Flue-Cured Tobacco

Tobacco dried in heated barns, Zimbabwe's main type

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Plain meaning
Tobacco dried in heated barns, Zimbabwe's main type
How to use it
Build or access a curing barn and fuel before planting.
South African benchmark
South Africa's tobacco sector has shrunk to about 170 growers (Article 121, 2012/13 baseline).
Country notes
Zimbabwe sold 357.1 million kg at an average of US$2.49 per kg in 2026.
Go and read
M19-U1, M19-U5
Calculate it
T-M19-01 Enterprise Budget
Library sources
LIB-A121, LIB-A122, LIB-P-Tobacco, LIB-P-Tobacco-IP
See also
Curing barn
Tobacco: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedTobacco: how the business runsSold bykg of cured leaf per hectare1Seedbed2Transplant3Reap leaves4Cure in barn5Auction or contract floorZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Tobacco Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M19 Tobacco.