Philip Morris Dominicana says it invested more than RD$121 million in 2013, of which RD$85 million went to training and financing of tobacco producers in the provinces of Santiago, Montecristi and Valverde. The company said that in the past seven years some 26,000 tareas (1 tareas = 629 square meters) of Burley tobacco (Tabaco rubio), to be sold to the company for the manufacture of cigarettes. The company spent RD$36 million on tobacco purchases in the country.