Tobacco season is on
After the rice harvest, seedbeds of Native broadleaf tobacco start to appear in farm areas in Isabela, an indication that the tobacco cropping season has begun in the region. Joey…
New Appointments
Resty C. Cambe, newly appointed Accountant IV of the Finance Department, and Deevid John Rayze B. Briosos, Secretary I of the Administrative Department, took their oath of office before Administrator/CEO…
Statement of Administrator/CEO Robert Victor G. Seares Jr. on the DFA and DTI’s statement of support during the COP9
The National Tobacco Administration strongly supports the statements of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Trade and Industry in the recent 9th Conference of Parties (COP 9)…
Tripartite agreement on tobacco floor price hike reached
A new tripartite agreement for the tobacco floor price between the farmers, private sector, and the National Tobacco Administration was reached during the two-day virtual Tripartite Consultative Conference that ended…
NTA allots P300-M production aid for tobacco growers
As in previous years, the National Tobacco Administration has allotted anew P300-million as production assistance for the tobacco growers in the implementation of its Tobacco Contract Growing System (TCGS) project…
Burgos, Ilocos Sur tobacco trowers get farm inputs
Some 318 tobacco-rice farmers of Burgos, Ilocos Sur received free fertilizers as farm input subsidy from the municipality’s share of the tobacco excise tax under Republic Act 7171. Mayor Nathaniel…
NTA Abra: Rice Production 2021 update
The farmers in Macarcarmay, Bangued, Abra under the IFOIGAP-Rice Project have started harvesting, threshing and drying rice. Marife P. Peralta, Agriculturist I of NTA ABRA, took this picture on November…
Production assistance for tobacco seedling growers
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.…
NTA Candon brings relief goods to ‘Maring’ victims
NTA Candon Branch Office, in cooperation with Universal Leaf Philippines, Inc. (ULPI), led the distribution of relief goods to 200 tobacco farmers in Sta. Maria and Sta. Cruz towns, in…
Tobacco farmers get broiler chicks for the GMB Project
NTA Candon distributed 3,500 broiler chicks to farmer beneficiaries of its Gulayan at Manukan sa Barangay (GMB) project in the second district of Ilocos Sur. This was held at the…