Pakistan Tobacco Board is helping the tobacco growers by various means for the safety of their crops and intersts.
October
Certification of annual accounts through chartered accountants.
Meeting with state bank, commercial banks for credit facilitites to growers.
November
Publications of R & d branch.
Annual R & D plan.
Annual technical report.
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.
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.
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:
PTB video from PTB official on Vimeo.
