THE EXAMINATION OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OF AEGEAN REGION TOBACCO LEAVES AT DIFFERENT PRIMING STAGES IN TURKEY
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2018
Yazarlar: Sıdıka EKREN
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2018, cilt 27, ss 313-319
Özet
Turkey is known as a producer of high quality oriental tobacco which is very suitable for the ecological and social structure. These tobaccos have been widely grown in several regions of Turkey for centuries as a practice of family agriculture. The study was carried out in Gordes, Tavas, Kirkagac and Esme provinces where play an important role in tobacco production of Aegean Region in the growing period of 2008-2009 and 2010. In this research, ten tobacco farmers which are known to show differences in terms of the tobacco quality and yield were identified. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd priming leaves of tobacco plants from ten different farmers have been harvested separately. The samples were taken from a tobacco bale in a way that each priming was represented as a related quality group. Total alcaloid (nicotine), total reducing sugar, crude ash, calcium, potassium and magnesium contents of tobaccos were analyzed. The results for all analyzes showed that there were significant differences among tobacco samples analyzed in different years, priming groups and provinces. After three years of measurement and monitoring, total alcaloid (nicotine), total reducing sugar, crude ash, calcium, potassium and magnesium contents were measured as 0.42-0.83%; 12.9-22.8%; 9.7-22.0%; 1.05-4.47%; 0.94-2.54%; 0.16-0.57%, respectively.