Mighty Corporation Delivers More Help to North Luzon Farmers

Mighty Corporation and organized tobacco farmer groups signed an agreement to pursue projects designed to uplift the lives of farming families of Northern Luzon.

With the theme “Sama-sama Tayong Pilipino sa Pagyabong ng Industriya ng Tabako” Mighty Corporation executives, retired general Edilberto P. Adan and retired judge Oscar P. Barrientos, and Mario Cabasal, head of the National Federation of Tobacco Farmers and Cooperatives, Inc. (NAFTAC) recently celebrated the partnership with all 200 tobacco farmer leaders in Pangasinan, La Union, Abra and the Ilocos provinces.

Mighty Corporation executives through the Wong Chu King Foundation handed over 16 units of hand tractors worth P2.5 million and 90 units of water pumps worth P1.1 million to chapter delegations from seven provinces in Northern Luzon during the event.

“We are happy that Mighty Corporation has stood firm on its commitments 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 Cabasal after the agreement was signed by the new partners. “This is definitely a big help to us, tobacco farmers,” added Cabasal.

Cabasal lauded Mighty Corporation for the P10-million three-pronged programs that will directly help tobacco farmers produce better quality tobacco that included the donation of support farm implements like irrigation pumps and tractors, sponsoring new 100 college scholar grants for the sons and daughters of tobacco farmers and the institutional support for the annual search for outstanding tobacco farmers and cooperatives.