The invention relates to a
tobacco leaf curing process capable of improving the curing quality of a
flue-cured tobacco variety KRK26, belonging to the technical field of
flue-cured tobacco modulation processes. The curing process comprises the following steps of: regulating the
humidity at low temperature to yellow tobacco leaves; stabilizing the temperature and removing
moisture for withering; ventilating and
dewatering for
drying the leaves; and controlling the temperature and the
humidity to dry leaf ribs. In the invention, the method of keeping the tobacco leaves at lower temperature to reduce water
evaporation in the tobacco leaves and guarantee the
water content of the tobacco leaves is adopted to solve the problems of less water and difficult yellowing of the tobacco leaves of the KRK26 variety in the yellowing period; the dry-
bulb temperature is between 41 DEG C and 44 DEG C, and the tobacco leaves can be sufficiently dewatered and shrunk to reduce the
cell membrane turgor; the
tobacco leaf cell membranes cannot be broken between 45 DEG C and 48 DEG C so as to smoothly fix the color; and in the whole process of
tobacco leaf curing, the
wet bulb temperature is controlled tobe between 34 DEG C and 38 DEG C so as to actively promote the
decomposition and the conversion of
macromolecular substances and the synthesis of flavoring substances. The invention has the advantages of simple and convenient operation, safety and insurance, can ensure that the tobacco leaves of the variety KRK26 can be smoothly yellowed, timely subjected to color fixing and subjected to rib
drying in good time and improves the tobacco leaf curing quality.