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                    [Title] => Rains ruin millions worth of tobacco
                    [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — The sudden downpour last week destroyed millions worth of tobacco plants in La Union, particularly in the first district where most of the tobacco farmers are based.


Farmers in Balaoan town, the largest tobacco producing municipality in La Union which is about 40 kilometers north of this city, told The STAR that the destruction was observed on Saturday when tobacco plants perished slowly due to the effect of the rainwater that flowed into the tobacco fields.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158142 [Title] => Farmers seen to earn more from new tobacco technology [Summary] => BACNOTAN, La Union – A leading cigarette manufacturing company may have a good reason to be happy this tobacco season. Company-assisted farmers have been turning in high quality virginia leaves at a ratio of 95 percent-five percent with the least percentage representing the poor or "reject" types.

Philip Morris agronomist-consultant Ricardo Boettcher told newsmen that 3,975 farmers, under contract with Philip Morris, have adopted a company-designed technology program.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Rains ruin millions worth of tobacco
                    [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — The sudden downpour last week destroyed millions worth of tobacco plants in La Union, particularly in the first district where most of the tobacco farmers are based.


Farmers in Balaoan town, the largest tobacco producing municipality in La Union which is about 40 kilometers north of this city, told The STAR that the destruction was observed on Saturday when tobacco plants perished slowly due to the effect of the rainwater that flowed into the tobacco fields.
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Philip Morris agronomist-consultant Ricardo Boettcher told newsmen that 3,975 farmers, under contract with Philip Morris, have adopted a company-designed technology program.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767161 [AuthorName] => Teddy Molina [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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