Pakistan Tobacco Board

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156th BoD meeting held on 21st January, 2020

Mr. Attaullah, Secretary, PTB briefing 26th STP officers (C & T) about PTB activities on their visit to office on 30th September, 2019.

Dr. Nizam Latif, DG, PITAD with 26th STP officers (C & T) in a group photo during their visit to PTB on 30th September, 2019.

Director (Research & Development) visit to Sharif Abad area on 30-07-2019. He inspected different tobacco purchase centres & depots for grading, average prices and weighment scales.He advised buyers to don't reject low grades tobacco.

A presentation by M/S IoTics Technology to representatives of tobacco companies and PTB officials regarding tobacco barns registeration and compilation of farmers' data in KP on May 13, 2019.

Signing of MoU between PTB and NCBC, Peshawar for detection and estimation of tobacco crop through Geoghraphic image analysis for the year 2019

Mr. Syed Fakhar Imam, Federal Minister, MNFS&R

Mr. Omar Hamid Khan, Federal Secretary, MNFS&R

Syed Sohail Altaf,
Chairman PTB

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News/Events

Services to Growers

Pakistan Tobacco Board is helping the tobacco growers by various means for the safety of their crops and intersts.

Tobacco companies requirements are announced every year at October vide national dailies for information to tobacco growers in order to execute their agreement with tobacco companies accordingly.

Scheduled activities of PTB at May and June, 2020

May, 2020

Tripartite meeting with growers, traders/mandiwalas and tobacco companies.
Budget meeting at PTB Head Office.
Advertisment for open auction cess collection rights of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.

June, 2020

Fixation of purchase dates for FCV and WP tobacco.
Constitution of vigillance committees and training.
Picking of leaves for curing, experimentation data collection.
Vists of Secretary during marketing seasons.

Contribution of PTC and PMPL in social Sector

Contributions by Philip Morris Pakistan, Limited (PMPKL) and Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) in the Social Sector under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are summarized hereunder

Manufacturers & Exporters

For reasons of superior quality, demands for Pakistani tobacco are not only domestically higher but internationally too. Click bellow to see and know more about the leading tobacco manufacturers and exporters during 2018-19.

Economic Significance of Tobacco

Though tobacco is grown on around 0.25% of total irrigated land of Pakistan, the crop plays an important role in Pakistan’s economy by generating income and employment in the tobacco farming, manufacturing, distribution and retailing.

Importing Countries

Tobacco crop in Pakistan is not only saving the country from a huge amount on import substitution but they add to national treasury pretty valuable returns by their export also. The list of countries that import Pakistani tobacco is shown in the table. To know in detail about the importing countries of Pakistani tobacco, please click the link bellow: