LOCAL tobacco farmers are calling the government to investigate Mighty Corp. over possible violations of the anti-dumping law, which ultimately would adversely affect the country’s tobacco industry.

In a statement, Ilocos Sur-based Banayoyo Reforestation and Tobacco Growers Credit Cooperative (BRTGCC) said that Mighty had been importing tobacco leaf at rates way below the floor price mandated by the National Tobacco Administration—making it liable for violation of Republic Act (RA) 8752, or the Anti-Dumping Act of 1999.

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