Methods of Processing Tobacco Leaves
Tobacco Leaf Harvesting: After being planted, tobacco is harvested 70 to 130 days later in one of two ways: either the whole plant is cut and the stalk is split or speared and hung on a tobacco leaves stick or lath, or the leaves are picked off as they grow. The needle is used to string the leaves of cigarette-wrapper and aromatic tobaccos, and a string is tied to a lath or stick that is hung in a curing barn and used to loop the leaves that will be flue-cured. For the leaf not to break or get hurt when it has to be handled for healing, it should wilt without getting

