Tobacco Asia

Tobacco Asia 61 • Double your resource value • Use 100% expanded fine- cut for MYO and RYO • Untouchable product quality • Impex – pressure/vacuum technology • DIET - Dry Ice Expansion Technology AircoDIET has supplied more than 55 DIET plants worldwide, many of which have been turn-key. We continuously develop and refine the DIET process and our DIET plants have above 95% uptime with a dry yield better than 98.5% through the plant. www.aircodiet.com Over 100% tobacco expansion Diversifying to increase income The construction of industrial complexes in tobacco-growing regions relies on their own characteristic advantageous resources to create a whole industrial chain of to- bacco agriculture according to local conditions. In Yichang city, Hubei province, the Yichang Branch under China Tobacco (Hubei) Commercial Corporation promotes the construction of integrated develop- ment as "tobacco + vegetables", "tobacco + tourism", and "tobacco + seedlings", etc. in tobacco-growing regions, making efforts to help tobacco growers to increase their income. In ShangYang village, Huanghua town, Yiling district, Yichang city, flowers, plums, and cigar tobacco grows well on the air-curing tobacco trial base. The village integrates "special fruit + rural tourism" resources into the economy. In the XingShan Banmiao village, the tobacco collection station that had been idle for many years was transformed into an e-commerce logistics center of the industrial complex in Banmiao tobacco-growing region through activating the assets. Covering an area of 500 sq.m. the center boasts a drying room, smoke room, cold storage, and a set of drying and bacon processing production lines, which can be used for vegetable bleaching, drying, and product packaging. It leads to the rapid development of local grain, vegetables, small fruits, and other alpine agricultural industries. Data show that since the 13th Five-Year Plan, tobacco farmers from Yichang in- creased their income by RMB900 million and created RMB180 million of tax revenue. The tobacco industry invested a total of RMB590 million to support the construction of curing rooms, roads, and water conservation facilities in tobacco-growing regions, which has greatly improved the production and living conditions of people there. RMB130 million of aid funded building of two reservoirs and irrigation of 36,000 mu of farmland. Among the aid funds, RMB46.5 million was directly invested to help 4,343 people of 13 villages out of poverty. They have explored a characterized road of tobacco leaf industry to help rural revitalization. Tobacco farmers in Hubei are encouraged to implement development models such as "tobacco + vegetables" to increase their income.

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