['   ', ' ', ' ', 'i', 'reasonable', 'rates."', 'While', 'the', 'minimum', 'support', 'price', '(MSP)', 'has', 'been', 'estimated', 'at', 'Rs', '22', 'per', 'kg,', 'the', "Growers'", 'Forum', 'demands', 'at', 'least', 'Rs', '44', 'per', 'kg.', '"The', 'Tobacco', 'Board', 'must', 'maintain', 'a', 'uniform', 'price,"', 'they', 'maintained.', 'Clarifying', 'the', 'Tobacco', "Board's", 'stand', 'in', 'this', 'issue,', 'Vishakantaiah,', 'general', 'manager', 'of', 'Tobacco', 'Board,', 'Mysore', 'said:', '“The', 'cost', 'of', 'tobacco', 'varies,', 'depending', 'on', 'the', 'quality', 'and', 'variety', 'of', 'the', 'produce.', 'Offering', 'Rs', '22', 'per', 'kg', 'is', 'only', 'a', 'MSP,', 'which', 'is', 'considered', 'only', 'when', 'the', 'growers', 'do', 'not', 'have', 'buyers', 'for', 'their', 'produce.', 'It', 'is', 'a', 'protection', 'measure', 'that', 'the', 'board', 'has', "implemented,''", 'he', 'added.', 'Referring', 'to', 'market', 'imbalances,', 'he', 'said', 'this', 'is', 'because', 'the', 'growers', 'do', 'not', 'strictly', 'follow', 'the', 'production', 'limit', 'stipulated', 'by', 'the', 'board.', 'The', 'board', 'has', 'proposed', 'about', '25', 'million', 'kgs', 'of', 'tobacco', 'production', 'this', 'year.', 'M.M.', 'Shenoi,', 'regional', 'director,', 'Central', 'Research', 'Tobacco', 'Institute', 'said', 'that', 'estimates', 'show', 'that', 'around', '34.8', 'million', 'kgs', 'of', 'tobacco', 'may', 'be', 'produced', 'this', 'year.', 'Five', 'taluks', 'in', 'Karnataka', '_H.D.', 'Kote,', 'Periyapattana,', 'Hunsur,', 'Shimoga', 'and', 'Ramanathapura', '__are', 'the', 'principle', 'producers', 'of', 'tobacco', 'and', 'they', 'fall', 'in', 'the', 'Karnataka', 'light', 'soil', 'belt,', 'which', 'is', 'conducive', 'to', 'quality', 'cultivation.', 'T.I.I', 'has', 'released', 'a', 'book', 'Potential', 'of', 'Tobacco', 'in', 'the', 'Agricultural', 'Economy', 'of', 'Karnataka', 'authored', 'by', 'G.Thimmaiah', 'and', 'G.', 'Nageshwar', 'Rao.', 'The', 'book', 'is', 'expected', 'to', 'help', 'farmers', 'in', 'developing', 'the', 'quality', 'and', 'competitiveness', 'of', 'their', 'produce', 'and', 'to', 'earn', 'a', 'fair', 'and', 'consistent', 'income.', '[29]', 'SR', 'RHR', 'eS', 'RS', 'ee', 'ee', 'SS', 'Date:', '20-Oct-2000', 'Source:', 'PARI', 'Daily', 'Financial', 'Carried', 'by:', 'PARI', 'Daily', 'Financial', 'Title:', 'Tobacco', 'Growers', 'To', 'Be', 'Paid', 'Remainder', 'Of', 'Last', "Year's", 'Bonuses', 'Location:', 'Bulgaria', 'Subject:', 'AGRICULTURE/PROGRAMS', '&', 'RESTRICTIONS', '-', 'Farm', 'Economics', '-', 'Government', 'Support/Regulation', 'AGRICULTURE/PROGRAMS', '&', 'RESTRICTIONS', '~', 'Farm', 'Economics', '-', 'Production/Overproduction', 'Old', 'Terms', '-', 'AGRICULTURE', 'PROGRAMS', 'AND', 'RESTRICTIONS', '-', 'Support', 'Programs—-Tobacco----In', 'General', 'Old', 'Terms', '-', 'AGRICULTURE', '-', 'Production', 'of', 'LEAF', 'Tobacco', 'growers', 'will', 'be', 'paid', 'the', 'remainder', 'of', 'last', "year's", 'bonuses', 'which', 'totals', '5', 'million', 'leva,', 'and', 'compensations', 'for', 'the', 'high', '.', 'production', 'costs,', 'agriculture', 'minister', 'Ventsislav', 'Vurbanov', 'said', 'Thursday.', 'Tobacco', 'growers', 'expect', 'to', 'get', 'a', 'total', 'of', 'some', '17', 'million', 'leva', 'from', 'Tobacco', 'Fund.', 'The', 'specific', 'size', 'will', 'be', 'determined', 'at', 'a', 'meeting', 'with', 'the', 'finance', 'minister', 'and', 'will', 'depend', 'on', 'the', "budget's", 'parametres.', 'No', 'markup', 'in', 'tobacco', 'prices', 'is', 'envisaged', 'as', 'they', 'are', 'quite', 'high', 'already', 'and', 'Bulgarian', 'products', 'are', 'not', 'competitive', 'on', 'the', 'international', 'markets.', 'According', 'to', 'Vurbanov,', 'great', 'amounts', 'of', 'old', 'tobacco', 'produce', 'have', 'been', 'stored', 'at', 'Bulgartabac', 'for', 'years.', '#JR0000001025054065', 'j70080', '0011078', 'geo', '6S0ES']