AMENDMENT TO DIMON INCORPORATED COMPENSATION DEFERRAL PLAN

Exhibit 10.1

AMENDMENT TO
DIMON INCORPORATED COMPENSATION DEFERRAL PLAN

          WHEREAS, Alliance One International, Inc. (the “Employer”), as successor in interest to DIMON Incorporated, is the sponsor of the DIMON Incorporated Compensation Deferral Plan (the “Deferral Plan”); and

          WHEREAS, the Employer has retained the right to amend or modify the Deferral Plan; and

          WHEREAS, there is only one Participant who has deferred compensation under the Plan, and there have been no deferrals in 2005; and

          WHEREAS, the Employer desires to freeze the Deferral Plan in light of the new deferred compensation rules of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

          NOW, THEREFORE, the Deferral Plan is hereby amended as set forth below, effective December 30, 2005:

1.

A new sentence shall be added at the end of Section 4 of the Deferral Plan, which shall read as follows:

“Notwithstanding the foregoing, participati