Reserve (MSP), ₹/kg
Indicative reserve prices from the default grade masters; the full price sheet is below.
01/04 · In the fieldTobacco rows in low sun, location not recordedPhoto sarangib at Pixabay, CC0
For state Tobacco Boards · FCV auction platforms
Lingsaa Tobacco is the system a Tobacco Board runs its auction platforms on. The weighbridge, the grader, the auction officer, the farmer and the buyer all work on the same lot, and the settlement is worked out once, to the paisa.
Head office, regions, districts and yards on one office tree. Farmers and buyers on their phones.
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Department defaults · Settings → Auction rules
Before the yard · a simulationFlue-cured Virginia · typical schedule
A week before a lot reaches the platform, the farmer cures it in a brick barn like this one in Prakasam: about 140 hours of fire and ventilators, read off a dry bulb and a wet bulb. Run the schedule right and the leaf comes out orange. Hurry it, or keep the ventilators shut, and the same leaf is graded green or mahogany, at a lower reserve.
A photograph of a tall square brick flue-curing barn in Prakasam district, with its instruments: the dry-bulb and wet-bulb thermometers, the ventilators and the furnace. Below it, reference photographs of tobacco leaf blend from one to the next as the leaf in the barn changes colour: green, yellowing, lemon, orange, or mahogany.
Up to 71–74 °C to dry the thick midrib, ventilators closing back as less moisture comes off.
Off the sticks, at the yard
Yellowed fully at 35–38 °C, then fixed and dried on time. A little browning in the fixing turns the lemon to orange: the leaf the demo lot carries to the yard.
Cure finished at hour 140. The leaf came out orange: grade L2O, Lower leaf, second, orange, reserve ₹255.00 per kg.
Grading & pricing17 auctioned grades · FCV
A grade code reads like a catalogue line: stalk position, quality, colour. L2O is lower leaf, second quality, orange. The grader's grade sets the lot's reserve price, and no bid may go below it.
What the photo shows
The colour flue-curing aims for; the last letter is O. Seven grades carry it, from first-quality cutters down to tips. The demo lot's L2O is one of them.
O grades · 7₹220.00–₹318.00 /kg
Stalk position and quality need the grader. In the app the grader photographs a hand of leaves and the grading assistant (Claude) suggests the full grade; the grader confirms.
Read by eye from the photo's colour, not by the assistant: no assistant answer is recorded for this photo yet.
| Grade | Description | Position | Reserve | Suggested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright | ||||
| C1L | Cutters, first, lemon | C · Cutters | 330.00 | 356.00 |
| C1O | Cutters, first, orange | C · Cutters | 318.00 | 343.00 |
| L1L | Lower leaf, first, lemon | L · Lower leaf | 305.00 | 329.00 |
| L1O | Lower leaf, first, orange | L · Lower leaf | 295.00 | 319.00 |
| X1L | Lugs, first, lemon | X · Lugs | 282.00 | 305.00 |
| Medium | ||||
| C2O | Cutters, second, orange | C · Cutters | 268.00 | 289.00 |
| L2O | Lower leaf, second, orange | L · Lower leaf | 255.00 | 275.00 |
| B2O | Leaf, second, orange | B · Leaf | 242.00 | 261.00 |
| X2O | Lugs, second, orange | X · Lugs | 232.00 | 251.00 |
| T2O | Tips, second, orange | T · Tips | 220.00 | 238.00 |
| Low | ||||
| L3M | Lower leaf, third, mahogany | L · Lower leaf | 205.00 | 221.00 |
| B3M | Leaf, third, mahogany | B · Leaf | 192.00 | 207.00 |
| X3M | Lugs, third, mahogany | X · Lugs | 182.00 | 197.00 |
| T3D | Tips, third, dark | T · Tips | 170.00 | 184.00 |
| Non-standard | ||||
| NSG | Non-standard, green / greenish | — | 162.00 | 175.00 |
| NSV | Non-standard, variegated | — | 155.00 | 167.00 |
| NSS | Non-standard, scrap and smoking | — | 150.00 | 162.00 |
Not auctioned: RJM (rejected, high moisture), RJF (rejected, foreign matter) — the lot goes back to the farmer.
Indicative defaults a new department starts with, not notified rates. The board's price committee sets its own by season and yard; a revision is approved by somebody other than who drafted it.
At the yard · a simulationOngole-I · gate, weighbridge, row
Lot 14 comes in to Ongole-I on a tractor trolley. Follow it through the gate check, onto the weighbridge and into the grader's hands, on real photographs from the tobacco districts and other yards, with the instruments' readings drawn live on top. The figures are the ones the rest of this page uses: 548.90 kg gross, 512.40 kg net, grade L2O at ₹255.00 a kilo.
LOT/2026/0004217REGISTEREDWEIGHEDGRADED
01 of 3 · Arrival
Who: Yard clerk, with a hand-held terminal
The farmer from Naguluppalapadu brings his 4 bales in on a tractor trolley. At the gate the clerk scans his grower licence, FRM/0001842, and finds the slot he booked in session AUC/000318. No booking, no entry: the yard knows the day's lots before they arrive.
| Grower licence | FRM/0001842 · Naguluppalapadu | valid |
|---|---|---|
| Slot | AUC/000318 · lot 14 | booked |
| Bale 1 | hessian, tagged | — |
| Bale 2 | hessian, tagged | — |
| Bale 3 | hessian, tagged | — |
| Bale 4 | hessian, tagged | — |
| Gross | — | |
| Tare | hessian and ropes | — |
| Net | — | |
| Moisture | accepted 10–18 % | — |
| Grade | — | |
| Reserve (MSP) | — |
Auction floor · a simulationOngole-I · AUC/000318
The floor's rules, run in your browser: the reserve, the increment, the timer and the exposure check, refused in the same words the server uses. Five simulated buyers bid against each other. You bid as Buyer B-15.
The auction board over lot 14, its 4 bales of grade L2O, the call slips and the six buyers' cards. No bid yet. The lot opens at the reserve, ₹255.00 per kilo.
Fig. 3 · Auction floor, Ongole-ISession AUC/000318 · Lot 14 · 4 bales · L2O
Real FCV bales with their lot tickets, Pernamitta tobacco auction platform, Ongole (Photo: Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), GODL-India). Behind: a market-yard shed at Raichur, standing in for the platform shed (Photo: Nanditha Gogate, WELL Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0). The board, tag, slips, cards and stamp are the simulation's.
Lot 14 · Session AUC/000318 · Ongole-I
L2O Lower leaf, second, orange
High bid
—
No bid yet. The lot opens at its reserve.
Next bid from
₹255.00/kg
the reserve
You are bidding as
Buyer B-15
Exposure: ₹0.00 in use of ₹1,60,000.00
Open the lot to start bidding. Try a price under the reserve too.
Bids on this lot, newest first
None yet.
Rules applied: increment ₹1.00/kg · timer 30 s, reset by every valid bid inside it · no bid below the reserve · exposure checked before a bid stands. Simulated buyers B-03, B-07, B-09, B-12, B-21 each have a private limit; it shows at the hammer. Nothing here is sent anywhere.
A lot's journey9 states · LOT/2026/0004217
Every move is made by one person, checked by the server and written to the audit log. A lot that isn't sold goes back into a later session; one that fails grading is rejected with the reason on it.
01 of 9 · REGISTERED
Who: Farmer, from a phone (or the yard's clerk)
Books a slot in a session and declares the bales and weight. The grower licence must be valid today and the quota must cover the declared kilos — lots still in the yard count too.
× 4 bales
declared 520.00 kg
Quota, crop year 2026
1,380.00 sold · 520.00 this lot · 500.00 kg left of 2,400.00 kg
The states in order: REGISTERED, WEIGHED, GRADED, APPROVED, ON_AUCTION, BID_WON, CONFIRMED, INVOICED, SETTLED.
SettlementInteger paise · rounded once, half-up
The money is worked out in one place on the server, in whole paise, rounded once — the way a cashier rounds, so the printed invoice agrees with the ledger. This calculator does the same sums. It starts from lot 14 at ₹266.00 a kilo; after the hammer on the auction floor above, “Work out the settlement for this lot” brings that price here.
512.40 kg × ₹266.00 = ₹1,36,298.40
In paise: 51,240 hundredths of a kilo × 26,600 paise, divided by 100, rounded once = 1,36,29,840 paise
| Sale value | ₹1,36,298.40 |
|---|---|
| − Commission 1%₹1,362.984 → ₹1,362.98 | ₹1,362.98 |
| Net to the farmer | ₹1,34,935.42 |
| Sale value | ₹1,36,298.40 |
|---|---|
| + Market fee 1%₹1,362.984 → ₹1,362.98 | ₹1,362.98 |
| + Buyer's tax 0% | ₹0.00 |
| Buyer pays | ₹1,37,661.38 |
Half a paisa rounds up. Nothing is rounded twice, and no step uses a floating-point number.
A photograph of a lime-washed village house in Grandhasiri, Guntur district, stands in for the farmer's home in Naguluppalapadu. Over it, the farmer's Android phone shows the Tobacco Board's SMS thread; beside it, the buyer's printed invoice. Both are given as text below.
Wed 18 Mar · 4:12 pm
LOT/2026/0004217 sold: 512.40 kg L2O @ Rs 266.00/kg = Rs 1,36,298.40. Payment to A/c XX4821 within 7 days. -Tobacco Board, Ongole-I
Sat 21 Mar · 10:42 am
Rs 1,34,935.42 credited to A/c XX4821 on 21-03-26 by NEFT for LOT/2026/0004217 (512.40 kg @ Rs 266.00, less commission Rs 1,362.98). UTR SBINN26080359679. -Tobacco Board, Ongole-I
మీ ఖాతాలో ₹1,34,935.42 జమ అయింది.
Tobacco Board
Ongole-I Auction Platform
Ongole, Prakasam District · Andhra Pradesh
LOT/2026/0004217L2O · 512.40 kg × ₹266.00
| Sale value | ₹1,36,298.40 |
|---|---|
| + Market fee 1% | ₹1,362.98 |
| + Tax 0% | ₹0.00 |
| Buyer pays | ₹1,37,661.38 |
Receipt · counterfoil
Received ₹1,37,661.38 on 20-03-2026 by NEFT
UTR HDFCN26079065235
Days from confirmationDay 3 · Farmer paid
Who uses itRoles and duties
What a login can do comes from its duty and its posting in the office tree. The menu on the left of the app is the permission list: what isn't there can't be opened.
Capability indexSettings → Modules
The auction and its parties are always on. The rest is switched on per department, and each part reads the same lots, farmers and offices instead of keeping its own copy.
Every record hangs off an office. A login reaches its own office and everything under it; farmers and buyers see only their own.
A login posted at Prakasam reaches 5 of 12 yards and everything recorded at them. Nothing outside.
Tap an office to post a login there. Office names from the demo department.
Data & integrationsPrivacy, KYC, maps
A Tobacco Board holds farmers' identity and bank details and moves crores in a season. The rules below are in the code, not in a policy document.
