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Tobacco fund not of much help to Ilocos Sur farmers 

Jump to full article: Newsbreak (ph), 2009-05-08

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CANDON, Ilocos Sur--From 1996 to 2008, the provincial government here received some P5.816 billion from the national government's tobacco excise tax collection. But the likes of Cesar Despe, a third-generation tobacco farmer, just shrug their shoulder when asked how the tobacco fund has helped them.

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