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Restructuring and Asset Impairment Charges
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
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The Company continues to focus on efficiency and cost savings across its business. During the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company announced a cost saving initiative and restructuring plan to repurpose a processing facility in South America for storage and special projects and process tobacco under a third-party arrangement going forward. During the year ended March 31, 2019, the Company incurred costs associated with the closing of a processing facility in Europe to process tobacco under a third-party arrangement going forward and the consolidation of the Company's U.S. green tobacco processing operations into its Wilson, North Carolina facility and the repurposing of its Farmville, North Carolina facility for storage and special projects. During the year ended March 31, 2018, the asset impairment charges were incurred due to restructuring of certain operations in Africa.

The following summarizes the Company's restructuring and asset impairment charges:

Years Ended March 31,
202020192018
   Beginning balance$1,843 $107 $189 
   Period Charges:
      Employee separation charges (recoveries)4,592 4,055 (22)
   Total employee separation and other cash charges (recoveries)4,592 4,055 (22)
   Payments(6,028)(2,319)(60)
   Ending balance$407 $1,843 $107 
   Asset impairment and other noncash charges1,054 891 404 
Total restructuring and asset impairment charges$5,646 $4,946 $382 
There are no employee separation and other cash charges recorded in the Company's Other Products and Services segment. The following summarizes the employee separation and other cash charges recorded in the Company’s Leaf - North America and Leaf - Other Regions segments:

Years Ended March 31,
202020192018
Leaf - North AmericaLeaf - Other RegionsLeaf - North AmericaLeaf - Other RegionsLeaf - North AmericaLeaf - Other Regions
Beginning balance$1,621 $222 $— $107 $60 $129 
Period charges (recoveries)8 4,584 2,668 1,387 — (22)
Payments(1,629)(4,399)(1,047)(1,272)(60)— 
Ending balance$— $407 $1,621 $222 $— $107 

The following summarizes asset impairment and other noncash charges:

Years Ended March 31,
202020192018
Leaf - North America$— $545 $— 
Leaf - Other Regions772 346 404 
Other Products and Services282 — — 
Total$1,054 $891 $404