Vegetables Grown With Tobacco Fertilizer

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 01/13/2009

Jan 12, 2009-Filipino farmers near Batangas have grown vegetables using tobacco rejects as organic fertilizer, according to a report in The Philippine Star. The vegetables were declared safe for human consumption by Tanauan city agriculturist, Grace Platon, after she and Dr. Isagani Catedral, a noted organic farming expert, showed officials of Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing the plots where the farmers had cultivated a variety of vegetables. Tests conducted separately by the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) and the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) were said to have shown that no alkaloids or harmful chemicals had permeated the vegetables. Enditem