Sugar producers raise the possibility of multinational firms influencing the Sugar Regulatory Administration into allowing the importation of sugar at the height of the country's mill season
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The clamor against the move of the Sugar Regulatory Administration to import 200,000 metric tons of sugar, as provided on its issued
SUGAR SUPPLY. Sugar being sold in retail at a supermarket in Bacolod City in this undated photo. Producers in Negros Occidental asked the Sugar Regulatory Administration on Wednesday (Feb. 9, 2022) to reconsider its order allowing the importation of 200,000 metric tons of sugar at the peak of the milling season.(PNA Bacolod file photo) BACOLOD CITY - Producers based in Negros Occidental, the country's top sugar-producing province, have asked the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to reconsider its order allowing the importation of 200,000 metric tons amid the ongoing milling season. The United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED) and Asociacion de Agricultores de La Carlota y Pontevedra Inc. (AALCPI) on Wednesday issued separate statements opposing the move provided in the agency's Sugar Order No. 3 supposedly aimed to stabilize the rising cost of sugar and expected low productivity in sugar-producing areas affected by Typhoon Odette. "SRA Administrator Hermenegildo Sera