Kiril Filiposki1), Milan Mitreski1), Valentina Pelivanoska1), Natasa Zdraveska1), Milan

Evaluation of tobacco quality in practice, during the purchase in the last few years, has not been in compliance with the criteria listed in the existing Rules. It is a result of the high quality obtained from tobacco types and varieties grown and application of contemporary agrotechnical practices during their production. There are insertions which, according to their usability value, must be listed in higher grades in industrial classification. In the Rules and criteria for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of raw tobacco leaf of the oriantal tobacco types Prilep, Yaka, Dzebel and Basmak (“Official Gazette of R. Macedonia”, 16/2007 and 144/2010), tobacco was divided into 6 grades for aromatic tobaccos (I, II, II-A, III-B, IV and V) and 5 grades for additional tobaccos (I,II, III, IV and V). After the analysis, it was recommended to reduce the number of grades of oriental aromatictobacco to four (I, II, III and IV) and those of additional tobaccos to two (I and II), which will enable a more real evaluation of tobacco quality of the labor of tobacco producers.