NATURAL air-cured tobacco planting has increased from 10 to 90 hectares in its second year of return after a 62-year hiatus, ...

The area transplanted with tobacco has risen by 14 percent, from 65 000 hectares on December 13 last year for the last crop ...

Each recipient received PHP6,000. (Photo courtesy of NTA Ilocos Norte) LAOAG CITY – Tobacco growers in Ilocos Norte have ...

The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is preparing for the nationwide distribution of P100 million worth of crop production grants for qualified tobacco farmers for the cropping season that ...

Prior to the grant’s nationwide distribution, the NTA branch offices should ensure that recipients meet all the requirements and surely plant tobacco this coming planting season. Started in the ...

In a notice to growers recently, Kutsaga Research head plant health and ... In the 2022/23 season the country produced over 296 million kilogrammes of tobacco worth US$897 million from 147 867 ...