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NegOcc vice guv urges unity in sugar industry

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer and sugar planters in southern Negros called for unity in the sugar industry under

DIALOGUE. Presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left) and running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (2nd from left), with former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (right), meet with leaders of the sugar industry in Negros Occidental before their grand rally held at the Reclamation Area in Bacolod City on Wednesday (Feb. 23, 2022). The sugar producers presented various issues and concerns to the frontrunners during the dialogue held at Stonehill Suites.(Screenshot from...

‘Recall Sugar Order 3,’ planters cry as sugar prices dropped by P230 per bag

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

Roberto Cuenca, head of the country’s biggest independent sugar group, says the SRA import delivers a huge blow to small producers

A former Sugar Regulatory Administration board member, as well as sugar planters, are urging the government to recall the order allowing the importation of 200,000 metric tons of sugar, saying raw sugar prices have already declined.

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 recon...

In Negros Occidental, a Western Visayas province where the economy rises and falls on the fate of the sugar industry, migrant field hands are indispensable once the harvest and milling season starts