Repairing Typhoon-Hit Irrigation Systems

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 11/20/2009

A tobacco exporter in the Philippines has come to the aid of tobacco farmers in La Union and Pangasinan looking to repair of an irrigation system that was badly damaged by typhoon Pepeng, according to a story in The Philippine Star. Universal Leaf Philippines recently donated 300 bags of cement that will be used to reconstruct eroded intake sections of an irrigation system serving tobacco farming areas neighboring the towns of Rosario and Sison. Eight hundred tobacco farmers belonging to several irrigation associations rely on the water coming out of the damaged irrigation system. Universal's president, Winston Uy, said that with the irrigation system repaired the leaf growers were guaranteed of having enough water for their forthcoming crop. Universal's donation is part of an overall aid effort by various sectors of the tobacco industry, including the National Tobacco Administration, which had separately conducted relief operation drives in the provinces and Metro Manila for victims of the devastation inflicted by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. Enditem