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Applications / Agro-industrial crops / Tobacco

TOBACCO (Nicotiana tabacum)

Tobacco belongs to the Solanaceae family.
Tobacco is an original crop from tropical regions, so the plant grows better between 30º South Latitude and 45º North Latitude, and best productions are found in regions with temperatures between 18 and 28 ºC.

Irrigation handling in tobacco crops is an essential point, as tobacco is very sensitive to a lack or to an excess of humidity. So the application of irrigation with sprinkling irrigation systems is recommended, with an adequate handling, as with this irrigation system the speed of water application is normally slower, avoiding this way the appearance of floods.

Sprinkling irrigation in tobacco is similar to the same natural rain, talking about application conditions. Sprinkling irrigation in tobacco crops shows many advantages, such as the following ones: the possibility to wash the surface of the leaves through irrigation, improving this way the efficiency of tobacco plants. It also allows us to fight against frosts as well as to reduce the temperature from the leaves, to fight against pests simply with the application of irrigation or even by adding to the irrigation water the phitosanitaries that the crop demands.

Sprinkling irrigation systems in tobacco crops show many advantages against othe irrigation systems, such as the durability and efficiency, the easiness to maintain, independence on specialized manpower, facility to storage, cost/ha of sprinkling irrigation, residual sale value and so on.

Tobacco plants require deep fertile loamy soils, well drained and with pH around 7. The texture of soils has a direct influence on the quality and on the content of tobacco leaves.
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