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Jump to full article: Reuters, 2008-01-29
Author: Rajendra Jadhav
Intro: India's tobacco exports in 2008/09 may be hit by Russia's decision to ban imports of some plant products from it, a senior official said on Tuesday.
However, in the year ending March 2008, tobacco exports are seen rising 10 percent to $420 million, from $381.54 million in 2006/07, on robust demand, J Suresh Babu, chairman of the Tobacco Board, told Reuters in an interview.
Russia banned imports of plant products, including tobacco, from India from Jan. 28 after it found the dangerous khapra beetle pest in a shipment of sesame.
Russia, the biggest buyer of Indian tobacco,
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