Mighty Corporation Launches Projects To Benefit North Luzon Farmers

Mighty Corporation or Mighty Corp through its Executive Vice President Oscar Barrientos expressed earlier this year their intent to help tobacco farmers and their families by doubling its tobacco purchase to 10 million kilograms and through a multi-pronged P10 million outreach projects.

A consultative meeting happened last February 8 in San Fernando, La Union between Mighty Corporation and some 200 tobacco farmer leaders in Pangasinan, La Union and the Ilocos provinces which sealed the project.   

“We are grateful and we are looking forward to the firm commitments of Mighty Corporation to help the 65,000 strong tobacco farmers in the Philippines with their pronouncements this year to purchase 10-million kilograms of tobacco leaves and the P10-million outreach projects for tobacco farmers,” said Mario Cabasal, president of the National Federation of Tobacco Growers and Cooperatives (NFTGC).

Cabasal expressed elation after learning that Mighty Corporation has made commitments to initially buy at least 10 million kilograms of tobacco leaves and to purchase all the excess tobacco leaves that farmers could not sell to other buyers.

Cabasal also lauded Mighty Corp’s P10-million three-pronged programs to directly help the tobacco farmers that will include the donation of support farm implements like irrigation pumps and tractors, new 200 college scholar grants for the sons of daughters of tobacco farmers and the institutional support for the annual search for outstanding tobacco farmers and cooperatives.

Thousands of farmers in Pangasinan and the Ilocos provinces have expressed relief that their tobacco leaves will have a sure market this year.

“Now that we are assured of an alternative market, besides other tobacco companies, our members will again be inspired to devote larger areas to the cultivation of Ilocandia’s most important cash crop,” Cabasal added.