Raise the purchase price of tobacco for the next season by up to 66 percent

Damascus - Sana

The General Organization for Tobacco announced that it would raise the prices of receiving tobacco for the next season by between 25 and 66 percent over the prices of the last season and according to each type.

The Director-General of the General Organization for Tobacco, Mohsen Abido, stated in a statement to the representative of SANA that this increase in prices came after studying the costs of agricultural production and providing a discounted price to farmers, which was taken based on the recommendation of the Economic Committee and the decision of the Minister of Industry, noting that the Economic Committee studies the costs of tobacco production at the beginning of each season to determine Remunerative and encouraging prices for farmers.

Abido indicated that this increase was accompanied by the opening of licenses for the cultivation of the municipal “Sik al-Bint” variety, while preserving the license ceiling, which is 2 dunums for each farmer, due to the absence of alternative crops in the place where they are cultivated, and that the rest of the varieties are permitted to grow for the wounded and the families of the martyrs.

The corporation explained in the bulletin of tobacco items prices that the price of one kilogram of the extra girl's check was set at 3000 pounds, the first category at 2300 pounds, the second at 1750 pounds, the third at 650 pounds, the extra-tabak at 2400 pounds, the first at 1750 pounds, the second at 850 pounds, the third at 500 pounds and the price The excellent fingerprint was classified as 3800 liras, good 2800, the middle 1550 and weak at 800 liras.

According to the price bulletin of tobacco varieties, the price of the excellent Brilib item was set at 3000 pounds, the good 2150, the middle 1250, the weak one at 550 pounds, the price of the excellent Burli variety at 2400 pounds, the good 1650, the middle 850, the weak 500, the price of the excellent Katrini variety 3000 pounds, the good 2150, the middle 1400 and the weak 700 pounds It ranked Virginia Super at 2,700 pounds, Good 2,100, Medium at 1,400 and weak at 600 pounds.

The General Director of the Corporation confirmed that all necessary preparations have been completed to receive the tobacco crop for the 2020-2021 agricultural season, starting from the sixth of next month, according to the purchase plan developed according to the readiness of each variety.

Abido expected that the current season's production of tobacco will reach more than 13 thousand tons of all types of tobacco, while the quantities received last year were about 11,250 tons.

Ahmed Souliman