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[Title] => National Tobacco Administration to go into corporate farming
[Summary] => The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) has adopted the corporate farming approach in the raising of low grade tobacco to supply the raw material requirements of the tobacco dust processing plant that the agency has put up in La Union last month.
[DatePublished] => 2009-08-31 00:00:00
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[Title] => Tobacco firms want to join goverment rice growing program
[Summary] => Several tobacco companies plan to participate in the government’s accelerated rice production program to resolve the shortage of rice in the market.
[DatePublished] => 2008-06-26 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Teddy Molina
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[Title] => NTA sets tobacco summit on GAP
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[DatePublished] => 2007-10-21 00:00:00
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[Title] => Tobacco farmers earn extra income from hog raising
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Ilocos tobacco farmers are on the way to receiving their first paychecks for an additional job created for them – as producers of hogs and other raw materials for a food processing plant.
Starting Jan. 11 the farmers will be turning in their supply of grown hogs to the PGMA-Multiline Food Processing Plant located in Mabilbila Sur, Santa, Ilocos Sur.
The initial deliveries will be done weekly until April 5 for a total of 231 pigs.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Vigan longganiza or bagnet, anyone?
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VIGAN CITY — Craving for Vigan ‘longganiza’ and ‘bagnet’ ?
You don’t have to wait for your next trip to Ilocos to get hold of these popular food delicacies from the north. Pretty soon, they will be accessible in a government office in Quezon City which has taken over the management of the Ilocos Sur-based Multiline Food Processing Plant.
This was learned from Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion of the National Tobacco Admnistration (NTA) who announced that the plant will resume full blast commercial operation soon.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-10 00:00:00
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[Title] => Early planting of tobacco urged
[Summary] => Three big tobacco-buying firms batted for early planting of the crop during a conference organized to come up with a common farming technology to improve leaf production.
This was learned from Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion of the National Tobacco Administration who organized the conference that was held at the NTA central office in Quezon City recently.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-27 00:00:00
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[Title] => NTA now producing pulpboards from tobacco stalks
[Summary] => The road that would lead to the production of paper from tobacco may be long and winding, but National Tobacco Administration (NTA) researchers were reported to have made much progress on the trailblazing enterprise.
NTA Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion said the tobacco agency has reached the stage of making pulpboards out of its virgin pulp production from tobacco stalks. The NTA has also subsequently made experimental base paper from the pulpboard, it was learned.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-05 00:00:00
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[Title] => Tobacco agency completes training on paper making
[Summary] => BATAC, Ilocos Norte – Officials of the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) are upbeat over the prospect of having tobacco farmers boost their income further after setting the stage for handmade paper making with the use of discarded tobacco stalks.
This was learned yesterday as NTA Administrator Mert Ellorin who said that the agency has just concluded a training on handmade paper production here involving farmer-leaders from four tobacco-based cooperatives from Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => Vegetable farmers turn to tobacco
[Summary] => TUBA, Benguet–Don’t look now but the fertile slopes and valleys in this highland town that used to raise the famous Baguio vegetables are now devoted to tobacco farming.
The shift was triggered by the debacle that befell Benguet farmers whose vegetable produce are being eased out of the market by cheap stocks that continue to stream into the country both legally and illegally from foreign countries like China.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => Tobacco growers turn to rice farming
[Summary] => VIGAN CITY – Don’t look now but tobacco farmers are into rice growing too. And from the looks of it, they have almost doubled the average yield per hectare of the country’s traditional rice farmers!
Records at the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) showed that rice tobacco farmers posted an average of 5.7 tons per hectare last year surpassing the national average rice yield of 2.9 tons a hectare.
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