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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition | REGIONS > DA admits tobacco industry is dying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | PTRTC trainors were also on their toes conducting training programs for tobacco extension workers and tobacco farmers in Ilocos Norte (for Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Abra), Pangasinan (for Pangasinan and Tarlac) and Isabela (for Cagayan, Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya). |
 | | The area planted to flue-cured, aromatic, cigar filler and cigar wrapper tobacco constitutes a very small percentage of the land in Ilocos, Cagayan Valley and western Tarlac, where these plants were cultivated during the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
 | | In the 1980s as one traveled from Ilocos Norte to Gerona, Tarlac, from Carmen, Rosales to Lupao, Nueva Ecija, and from Nueva Vizcaya to Cagayan province, whether on the national highway or the provincial roads, one could see vast tracts of land planted to these three types of tobacco. |
| www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/may/10/yehey/prov/20040510pro6.html (1510 words) |
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