The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is gearing up to distribute a P100-million crop production grant from the national government to qualified tobacco farmers across the country for the 2024-2025 cropping year. In a recent meeting chaired by Agriculture Undersecretary Deogracias Victor B. Savellano, alongside NTA Administrator Belinda S.
The National Tobacco Administration is gearing up to distribute a P100-million crop production grant from the national government to qualified tobacco farmers across the country for the 2024-2025 cropping year.
“The giving of production assistance for our tobacco farmers is realized under the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., through Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr., and the NTA to enhance the production of quality tobacco considering that the tobacco industry remains one of the strongest pillars of the country’s economy, contributing 1 percent of the GDP and 6 percent of the overall annual tax revenue collections,” said Savellano in a statement.
Of the total recipients of the assistance, 9,055 are farmers listed under the NTA’s Tobacco Contract Growing System program, and 7,611 are non-TCGS farmers. The beneficiaries must also be NTA-registered tobacco farmers personally tilling a tobacco farm, capable of providing adequate labor to attend to all activities in quality tobacco production, able to provide basic farm tools and equipment, such as plow, harrow, sprayer, work animal, irrigation pump, and curing bar/air curing shed, and should have adequate sources of good quality irrigation water and desirable for tobacco production.
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