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Home | Latest Cigar News | THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE TOP BUDS AND SIDE
THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THE TOP BUDS AND SIDE
Topped
The tobacco grower must take care of each of his plants as if they were “delicate ladies", using José Martí's expression, because in the cultivation of tobacco there are works very related to this sentence before described, they are topped and suckering, which conform the group of activities that receive the generic name of works to control growth.
When topping there are biological, chemical, technological and economic objectives, which can be appreciated next:
a) Biological Objectives.
To guarantee an appropriate balance among the radical systems.
To deviate all reserves of the substances that should go toward the flowers to the leaves.
To diminish the contents of a group of hormones and to balance others.
To increase the thickness of the leaf and its mass.
To diminish the distance between nodes.
b) Chemical Objectives
To elevate the contents of nicotine
To increase the chemical composition of the leaves.
To increase the contents in nitrogenous substances.
To stimulate the production of aromatic substances.
To favor the production of oils and resins.
To activate the processes of accumulation of dry mass in the foliage.
c) Technological Objectives
To increase the resistance of the plant against noxious agents, mainly against the Heliothis
To increase the resistance of the plant before drought.
It facilitates to standardize among the plants the maturation process.
It increases the maturation speed.
It favors the yield of the plant.
It facilitates a maximum of quality of the leaves.
d) Economic Objectives
Elevation of the value of the mercantile production.
The increase of the economic efficiency.
High gain indexes.
High Values of profitability.
Low cost of production.
Improvement of the economic and social efficiency of the tobacco production.
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