Mighty Corp Promotes Tobacco Dusts as Natural Fish Pond Conditioners

Mighty Corporation or Mighty Corp, a local cigarette manufacturer in the Philippines will donate tobacco dust to help millions of Filipino fish pond owners and operators.

Tobacco dust is known as a natural fish pond conditioner that protects local ponds from predators.

“We are going to help the National Tobacco Administration promote the use of tobacco dust by donating it to thousands of fish pond owners and operators all over the country,” said Mighty Corp Executive Vice President Oscar Barrientos

The move will not only help fish pond owners but also thousands of tobacco farmers nationwide.

“In doing so, we are helping both tobacco farmers and fish pond owners and operators increase their yield.” Barrientos added.


The National Tobacco Association (NTA) is currently promoting tobacco dust to control the population of snails and other fish pond predators.

According to NTA, tobacco dust is a more effective alternative to the highly toxic and cyanide-based chemicals that fish pond owners are currently using right now in the preparation or sterilization of fishponds.

It promotes the growth of an algae called lablab, a natural fish food that also serves as a pond floor conditioner.  Pond owners and operators use it to prepare or sterilize fish ponds before stocking fingerlings there.

Fish stocking on the other hand is the practice of raising fish in a hatchery and releasing them into a river, lake, or an ocean to supplement existing population, or to create a population where none exists.

Studies made by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center in Tigbauan, Iloilo under Joebert Toledo confirms the efficacy of tobacco dust.  Other studies shows promising results from the use of tobacco dust as a substitute to chemical fish pond fertilizers.

NTA produces Tobacco Dust Plus at a plant in Sto. Tomas, La Union, where leaves are re-dried and pulverized.

Mighty Corp aims to help local tobacco farmers earn more by getting them to increase tobacco leaf production for alternative uses such as tobacco dusts as fish pond conditioner.

Barrientos also said that Mighty Corporation aims to increase the income of the tobacco-growing industry by buying a large quantity of tobacco leaves from local farmers all over the country.