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The price of onions could literally make one cry. This is the price that we consumers have to pay for the sake of local onion producers decrying the unfair competition of imported ones.
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The price of onions could literally make one cry. This is the price that we consumers have to pay for the sake of local onion producers decrying the unfair competition of imported ones.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): More stakeholders have moved forward to oppose President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s plan to allow the importation of refined sugar at the soonest possible time, saying such a move won’t pull sugar prices down.
Sugar producers say their output is sufficient to meet national demand, and the millgate price does not justify the prevailing retail prices.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who is also the country’s agriculture secretary, is hastening the entry of imported refined sugar to stabilise its selling prices, a move widely opposed by sugar producers as the Philippines still has sufficient local supply.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Three more sugarcane producers’ federations have joined the call not to import refined sugar, stressing that there is adequate