2 agriculture groups ask Duterte to save jobs by enacting vape bill
Two agriculture groups asked President Rodrigo Duterte to protect the livelihood of Filipino farmers and growers by approving the vape ...
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Produce more tobacco, Lantion urges farmers
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya—Mayor Ralph Lantion has encouraged tobacco farmers here to produce more for their economic development. Lantion said the ...
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Tobacco tax
Tobacco farmers trooped in front of the Senate gate to express their sentiments to the senators on the increase of ...
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Tobacco tax rallies
Tobacco farmers from the north rally in front of the Senate in Pasay City on Tuesday, Jan. 29, to oppose another ...
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Mighty’s closure seen to hurt 55,000 tobacco farmers in PH
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos will be affected if the government makes good on its threat to close down homegrown ...
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HB 4144 a balancing act, says ex-BIR chief
The recently passed House Bill No. 4144 is a delicate balancing act from a national policy standpoint, as it seeks ...
Read moreSolons cited for protecting lowly farmers
Archbishop Sergio Utleg, D.D. of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao commended lawmakers for passing a measure that considers the plight of ...
Read moreBig tobacco farmers group backs cigarette tax bill
The National Federation of Tobacco Farmers Association and Cooperatives has backed House Bill 4144, calling it the “true pro-farmers measure ...
Read moreTobacco farmers support two-tier cigarette tax
The National Federation of Farmers Association and Cooperatives, the biggest group officially recognized by the National Tobacco Administration, threw their ...
Read moreHouse panel okays tobacco tax bill
IGNORING the protest of tobacco farmers that the passage of the amended sin tax bill was being railroaded, the House ...
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