Snails Boost Philippine Tobacco

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 09/01/2009

The Philippine's National Tobacco Administration (NTA) wants to plant 2,220 ha of low grade tobacco to produce a molluscicide for wiping out snails in fishponds, reports The Philippine Star. The dust product, along with tobacco pulp, tobacco extract concentrates and ethanol that have been discovered as alternative tobacco products, have recently revolutionized the local tobacco industry. In July, the NTA put up a tobacco dust processing plant in La Union. The agency's massive planting project would yield enough leaf to be converted into tobacco dust totaling 7.54 million kilos a year, deputy administrator for operations Robert Bonoan said. He said this would be supplemented by about 1.5 million kilos in sweepings and other shredded leaf wastages found in cigarette factories, redrying plants and trading centers. Enditem