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                    [Title] => Seed body approves 7 new varieties of food, cash crops
                    [Summary] => Seven new varieties of food and cash crops – three sweet potato and two each for corn and tobacco – have been bred by government and private researchers. 


The varieties have been approved for commercial production by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC).


The new sweet potato varieties are NSIC Sp-28 and Sp-29 bred by UP Los Baños and NSIC Sp-30 developed by PhilRootCrops-Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte. They can be grown in all regions of the country.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-11-13 00:00:00
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                    [Title] => Tobacco farmers prodded on quality
                    [Summary] => TANAUAN CITY — US tobacco giant Philip Morris Phils. Manufacturing Inc. (PMPMI) assured Filipino tobacco farmers that they will have a market for their produce as long as they meet the industry’s quality standard.


Chris Nelson, PMPMI managing director, told a press briefing here that about 600 metric tons of burley tobacco from Isabela worth P95 million have already been exported to Philip Morris plants in the United States, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Malaysia and Australia.


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Seed body approves 7 new varieties of food, cash crops

November 13, 2005 - 12:00am

Seven new varieties of food and cash crops – three sweet potato and two each for corn and tobacco – have been bred by government and private researchers. The varieties have been approved for commercial...

Agriculture

Tobacco farmers prodded on quality

November 26, 2003 - 12:00am

TANAUAN CITY — US tobacco giant Philip Morris Phils. Manufacturing Inc. (PMPMI) assured Filipino tobacco farmers that they will have a market for their produce as long as they meet the industry’s quality...

Nation