Bulacan-based tobacco manufacturer Mighty Corp are promoting the alternative use for tobacco. It will help reduce Filipino farmers’ reliance on chemical-based pesticides and also to increase their income and saving Mother Earth.
According to the executive vice president of Mighty, former judge Oscar Barrientos said that the project is a part of the company’s corporate social responsibility thrust.
He explained that there’s hundreds of Filipino farmers were switching from chemical-based to organic pesticides, or a combination of the two. “This trend should be encouraged,” he added.
They are collaborating with National Tobacco Administration, Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority of the Department of Agriculture and University of the Philippines in Los Baños, Laguna in this plan to hype up the production of organic pesticide in the country.
In case you didn’t know that farmers make up 11.55 million of the country’s 38.6-million-member labor force and contribute 20 percent of its gross domestic product.
Insects and other pests have adversely affected farmers’ production of main agricultural crops, including rice, corn, coconuts, sugarcane, bananas, pineapples, coffee, mangoes and abaca.
Meanwhile, secondary crops such as peanuts, cassava, sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, cabbages, eggplants, calamansi, rubber, and cotton also affected of it.
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