INTABACO implements the presidential goals in the Tobacco Sector

Santiago.- Rafael Antonio Almonte, director of the Tobacco Institute of the Dominican Republic (INTABACO), confirmed that the institution successfully achieved the presidential goals, assigning 15.5 million tasks and producing 31 million quintals of tobacco.

Almonte stressed that at the beginning of President Luis Abinader’s term, efforts were made to revitalize the tobacco sector, with the aim of restoring jobs, boosting exports and attracting domestic and foreign investors to participate in the domestic tobacco industry.

He emphasized that these efforts resulted in the achievement of specific presidential goals, including: production of 30.1 million seedlings in trays under controlled conditions and support for 175,000 traditional seedbeds.

Under his leadership, the institution also facilitated the construction of 237 new smokehouses and the renovation of 1,205 existing homes through its wood services program. Additionally, 172.7 thousand were repaired. land assignments for tobacco cultivation.

Almonte made these remarks during his speech at the INTABACO 62nd anniversary celebration held at the “Professor Eugenio de Jesús Marcano Fondeur” Botanical Garden in Santiago de los Caballeros. Eulalio Ramírez, Deputy Minister of Agricultural Production, spoke on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture Limber Cruz at the event, after the Eucharist presided over by the Reverend Fr. Teófilo Estévez and attended by INTABACO employees.

The ceremony gathered significant personalities from the world of agriculture, politics and business