CSR activities reported by interviewees
| Sector | No of countries | Examples reported by participants |
| Health | 7 | Building hospitals/ cancer wards/ health facilities (generally and in farming areas specifically), funding health programmes such as screening for cancer, hypertension and diabetes |
| Education | 6 | Building schools (generally and in farming areas specifically), providing scholarships |
| Environment | 5 | Planting trees, recycling and waste management |
| Tobacco farming and communities (overlapping with health and education) | 5 | Providing seedlings and technical support for farmers, building solar plants, water plants, health facilities and schools, and offering scholarships |
| Communities (not explicitly referring to farming communities) | 4 | Building a public library, providing chairs for a community hall, providing umbrellas and stationery |
| Local authorities | 4 | Renovating and painting local police stations, building a library for a local court, providing drinking water at the district administration |
| Sports | 4 | Sponsoring local sports teams, sponsoring football matches and tournaments, sponsoring sports news |
| Culture | 2 | Sponsoring art exhibitions, funding a music centre, giving awards to artists |
| Religion | 1 | Sponsoring a religious festival |