This paper aims to analyse the general characteristics of tobacco productive circumstances and to suggest attention on mechanization alternatives that are available to build up the infra-structure for tobacco production.
The characteristics of tobacc...
This paper aims to analyse the general characteristics of tobacco productive circumstances and to suggest attention on mechanization alternatives that are available to build up the infra-structure for tobacco production.
The characteristics of tobacco productive circumstances can be summarized as widespread small scale farming, high labor practices, and pit-covered mulching cultivation. Rapid development of economic growth during the last decade has been largely increased farm wages as decrease of the shortage of absoluted rural labors. Accompanying the labor problems have been a continual reducing of tobacco production. Much progress has been made in recent years in the development of new tools and techniques for all phase of tobacco production, form soil preparation to curing. The new developments should be considered both reducing labor and raising operational efficiency toward optimum levels.
The improvement of productivity should be effectively produced on mechanization and techiques by float system and direct-seeding of transplants in large greenhouse, integrate work of soil preparation, many-sided machinery for field management, large curing facilities, automation of curing management, and large package of tangled leaf. The management rationalization should be effectively produced on expanding farm size, reforming farm land, specializing the seedling production, manufacturing compost and grouping the curing barn by contract farmers or encouraging group.