First picking
Grade P
Thinner in body and lighter in character than later pickings. Suited to blends that need a lighter, milder leaf.
See pricingSince the 1970s · A family in tobacco
Fifty years of leaf, from field to factory.
Durga Enterprises procures premium tobacco leaf directly from farmers across India and supplies it to ITC — across all five commercial grades.
Our business
From the farmer's hand to
manufacturing hub.
One link of the tobacco supply chain, walked end to end — five stages between a farmer's field and a factory floor.
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Direct procurement
Leaf bought straight from the farmer's hand — no middlemen, no opaque pricing, and relationships that have outlasted three generations of our own family.
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Honest grading
Every leaf hand-graded by sorters who have done little else for twenty years. What we write on the bale is what is inside it.
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Blending to specification
Grades blended to each buyer's recipe, so the last bale of a consignment reads the same as the first.
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Threshing & packing
Lamina separated from stem under controlled conditions, then conditioned and pressed into factory-ready bales.
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Dispatch to the hub
Agreed volumes, on agreed dates, at agreed grades — season after season, for decades.
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And the leaf arrives as promised.
One accountable hand from the field to the factory gate.
The leaf
We deal in all five commercial grades.
Early-mid picking
Grade X
Wider in body than Grade P with deeper colour, keeping a similarly thin leaf structure. A dependable mid-range leaf.
See pricingMid picking
Grade L
Leaf with length, less width and a light bold head. Chosen where leaf length matters to the manufacturing process.
See pricingMid-late picking
Grade C
Bold head leaf with colour equal to X and less width. A fuller leaf for blends that need more weight and depth.
See pricingLate picking
Grade T
Full bold head with width less than C. The heaviest of the five, for blends built around a full-bodied leaf.
See pricingClient served
ITCIndian Tobacco Company
VSTVST Industries
Wazir tobacco
Testimonials
Trusted by the people on both sides
of the trade.
"Consistency of grade and reliability of supply — that is what we value in a long-term partner. Durga Enterprises has delivered on both, for decades."Procurement HeadA multinational tobacco company
"Subbarao garu built this company on his word, and his family has kept it. In our trade, that reputation is worth more than any contract."Venkat R.Fellow leaf merchant
"Three generations of my family have sold our crop to Durga Enterprises. They weigh fair and they pay on time. That is everything for a farmer."Ramesh K.Tobacco farmer, Guntur