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Golden Leaf Award
December 4 , 2019
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- Tobacco Board of India, located at Guntur of Andhra Pradesh, has been awarded the Golden Leaf Award at Tab Expo 2019 event in Amsterdam, Netherland.
- This is the second time that the Tobacco Board had been awarded.
- In the year 2014, the board bagged the award for its implementation of an electronic auction system, which has made the marketing of flue-cured tobacco in India more transparent and accountable.
- The award was given in the most impressive public service initiative category for the year 2019, for its efforts to initiate various sustainability (green) initiatives in Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco cultivation in India.
- The Golden Leaf Awards are created to recognise professional excellence and dedication in the tobacco industry by Tobacco Reporter, an international magazine in the year 2006.
- India is the world’s fourth largest producer of FCV tobacco.
- About 88,000 FCV tobacco farmers and their families in the States of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are dependent on this crop for their livelihood.
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