Last year, there are 200 tobacco farmer leaders in Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos provinces and Mighty Corporation collaborated in a partnership which the company commits for a new major player in the cigarette industry.
Mighty Corporation Executive Vice President Oscar P. Barrientos said that they asked for help of the National Tobacco Administration about buying P10-million kilograms tobacco leaves and the multi-pronged P10-million Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for tobacco farmers and their families.
“We are grateful and we are looking forward to the firm commitments of Mighty Corporation to help the 65,000 strong tobacco farmers in the Philippines with their pronouncements this year to purchase 10-million kilograms of tobacco leaves and the P10-million outreach projects for tobacco farmers,” said Mario Cabasal, president of the National Federation of Tobacco Growers and Cooperatives.
Cabasal has been overwhelmed over Mighty’s commitments of purchasing 10 million kilograms of tobacco leaves. Thousands of farmers in Pangasinan and the Ilocos provinces have expressed relief that their tobacco leaves will have a profitable market in the country.”
“Now that we are assured of an alternative market, besides other tobacco companies, our members will again be inspired to devote larger areas to the cultivation of Ilocandia’s most important cash crop,” he said.
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