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Restructuring and Related Activities
 9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Restructuring and Impairment Costs Disclosure RESTRUCTURING AND IMPAIRMENT COSTS
Universal continually reviews its business for opportunities to realize efficiencies, reduce costs, and realign its operations in response to business changes. Restructuring and impairment costs are periodically incurred in connection with those activities.
Tobacco Operations
As a result of efforts to exit the idled tobacco operations in Tanzania, the Company reevaluated the carrying values of property, plant, and equipment associated with the Tanzania operations. During the three months ended December 31, 2021, the Company determined the carrying value exceeded the estimated fair value of those assets and recognized a $9.4 million impairment charge.
During the three and nine months ended December 31, 2021, the Company also incurred $0.6 million and $2.2 million of termination costs for the Tobacco Operations segment, respectively.
During the three and nine months ended December 31, 2020, the Company incurred $2.6 million of termination and impairment costs associated with restructuring of tobacco buying and administrative operations in Africa, as well as a $0.9 million charge for the liquidation of an idled service entity in Tanzania, and $0.4 million of termination costs in North America.
Ingredients Operations
During the nine months ended December 31, 2020, the Company committed to a plan to wind-down its subsidiary, Carolina Innovative Food Ingredients, Inc. ("CIFI"), a sweet potato processing operation located in Nashville, North Carolina. The CIFI operation was a start-up project initially undertaken by the Company in fiscal year 2015. The decision to wind down CIFI was consistent with the Company’s capital allocation strategy to focus on delivering shareholder value through building and enhancing a plant-based ingredients platform, which includes integrating and exploring the synergies of recently acquired businesses. The Company determined that CIFI was not a strategic fit for the platform’s long-term objectives. CIFI’s single-product focused processing facility and ongoing international pricing pressures, among other factors, created challenges that proved insurmountable. As a result of the decision to wind down the CIFI operations, the Company paid termination benefits totaling approximately $0.6 million to employees whose permanent positions were eliminated. In addition to the termination costs, the Company recognized various other costs associated with the wind-down of the CIFI facility. These costs include impairments of property, plant, and equipment (including the factory building), as well as inventory and supply write-downs. The total restructuring and impairment charge for the nine months ended December 31, 2020 for the CIFI operations wind-down was $16.1 million.
During the nine months ended December 31, 2021, the Company recognized $1.2 million of net gains on the sale of the remaining property, plant, and equipment associated with the wind-down of the CIFI operations that was announced in fiscal year 2021.
A summary of the restructuring and impairment costs recorded for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 were as follows:

Three Months Ended December 31,Nine Months Ended December 31,
(in thousands)2021202020212020
Restructuring costs:
  Employee termination benefits$627 $2,625 $2,174 $2,625 
  Other— 1,766 (24)1,766 
    Total restructuring costs627 4,391 2,150 4,391 
Impairment costs:
  Property, plant and equipment7,806 13,886 8,307 13,886 
  Inventory— 1,702 — 1,702 
    Total impairment costs7,806 15,588 8,307 15,588 
      Total restructuring and impairment costs$8,433 $19,979 $10,457 $19,979