National Tobacco Administration (NTA) manager Esmeralda G. Valera announced that the office has allocated 11 slots of scholarship grants to children of tobacco farmers in the province for school year 2011-2012.
Since the announcement came a bit late, Valera instructed interested applicants who are qualified to avail of the said scholarship program to act fast and coordinate with their respective agricultural technicians assigned in their municipality as well as in the Abra State Institute of Science and Technology (ASIST), the only agricultural college in the province.
At least eight slots for four-year courses or bachelor’s degrees and three vocational courses are available for this year.
The NTA scholarship grant is given to poor but deserving student-children of registered tobacco farmers in Abra, which means that the applicant must have a general minimum weighted passing average and must be able to finish the course he is going to enroll within the prescribed curriculum year.
The primary criterion for granting the scholarship program is the willingness of the student-applicant to take up agriculture-related courses.
Other qualifications for the scholarship program are: the applicant must have graduated in high school and must be an incoming first year college student this current school year.
The NTA scholar is given P3,000 for tuition fees per semester. A scholarship contract must be signed between the NTA and the scholar.
Meanwhile, Valera reminded the tobacco farmers of their unpaid amortizations of their loans for the tobacco production. Otherwise, they will not be able to avail of the loan for their rice production this coming cropping season.
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