BAC2 and BAC3 recommended as bright air-cured tobacco lines
1997
Abrogena, N.Q. | Fiesta, B.P. | Meres, R.R. | Malab, A.M. | Aquino, M.C. | Rinon, I. | Ibbay, C.A. | Riazonda, C.C. | De la Cruz, M.U. (National Tobacco Administration, Batac, Ilocos, Norte (Philippines))
The development of the new bright air-cured tobacco lines can improve the leaf quality of the local Burley tobacco required by the manufacturers. With high quality, high-nicotine Burley tobaccom importation of this kind can be reduced which can improve the balance of payment situation. In the long run, the Philippine Burley tobacco can become competitive in the world trade. These lines have significant improvement over the existing variety. BAC2 has higher yield than the farmer's variety. On the other hand, BAC3 has relatively lower yield than the farmers' variety, but higher quality than both BAC2 and farmer;s variety. The production technology requirements are the same as for the technology used by farmers or required by traders. Hence, the production requirements of the new lines are compatible with farmers' existing resources. The two BAC lines have high quality leaves, with high nicotine content (about 4 percent) under the US standard requirements. With higher yield and better quality BAC offers a higher income to adoptors, giving additional income as much as P11,893.33/ha over the farmers' variety. However, the BAC3 lines which possesses the high-quality, high-nicotine requirement of the manufacturers cannot produce sufficient yield to be beneficial to farmers. Hence, if BAC3 can be evaluated to match the imported Burley tobacco, then a price premium can be considered before it can be commercialized. Thus, a more intensive evaluation of BAC3 by the manufacturers is needed to determine further if a price premium is cheaper than the importation cost
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