Tobacco seedling growers received P4.44 million worth of production assistance and farm inputs from Agriculture Secretary William Dar on November 4.
Acting NTA Deputy Administrator for Operations Engr. Cesario G. Sambrana joined the Secretary in the ceremonial distribution held during the RCEF-RFFA Launching Ceremony in Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College (ISPSC) in Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur.
The seedling growers are part of the 62 farmers of the second district of Ilocos Sur who are cooperators of the Improved Tobacco Seedling Production (ITSP) Project of the National Tobacco Administration.
Under the ITSP, now on its third year of implementation, the agency provides P20 million worth of production assistance to 250 seedlings growers in the country to produce sufficient tobacco seedlings of good, uniform, strong and healthy quality.
The tobacco growers also received from NTA Candon inputs for the NTA Gulayan at Manukan sa Barangay and Vegetables Seed Distribution.
[Photo credit: John James Canosa /NTA Candon]