<span style="color: #222222;">Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has accorded approval for over 28 crore rupees to extend the special interest-free loan of ten thousand rupees to each member of Tobacco Board's Growers' Welfare Schemes under Southern Regions of Andhra Pradesh (AP). This will directly benefit more than 28 thousand tobacco farmers affected by Cyclone Mandous in Andhra Pradesh. The interest-free loan to the eligible FCV tobacco farmers will be administered by the Tobacco Board, a statutory body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<br />''<br />''FCV (Flue Cured Virginia) tobacco is a major commercial crop grown in ten districts of Andhra Pradesh. It is the major exportable tobacco variety of the total unmanufactured tobacco exports from India.</span><br />