The Philippines will not export sugar this crop year amid expected lower output, according to the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA). Sugarcane Farmers On August 31, SRA already formally issued Sugar Order (SO) 1, which contains the agency’s production estimate for the current crop year as...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released additional funds to provide the delayed special risk allowance (SRA) for medical frontliners battling the pandemic. COVID-19 vaccine In a statement, the budget department announced late Friday, Sept. 3, that an additional P888.12 million in...
Malacañang assured health care workers that their other benefits mandated by law will be given to them but noted that the issue with their special risk allowance (SRA) was already a case closed. Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPEs) from different public and private hospitals...
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), which regulates the country’s sugar industry, is bent on temporarily suspending the country’s exports of sugar over the next 12 months as production is expected to further decline amid expected weather disturbances. Based on SRA’s official management...
Like law enforcement agencies tasked to carry out the government's war on drugs, health care workers should also equipped and taken care of as they battle the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Senator Nancy Binay said. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Binay made the...
Concerned that his agency will again be called out by the Commission on Audit (COA), Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday, August 25, insisted the need for a law that would authorize the grant of special risk allowances (SRA) to health care workers who are not catering to COVID-19...
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is set to release the allocation of the country’s sugar output for the next crop year, but a group of sugar producers wants to make sure that 100 percent of production stays in the country for domestic consumption. SRA logo In a statement, the United...
The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is optimistic that as much as 85,547 metric tons (MT) of refined sugar that it allowed traders and importers to bring into the Philippines through its latest importation program will arrive in the country by October. “We expect that the 85,547 MT will be...
The United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED) is opposing the proposed molasses importation of the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines’ (EPAP). In a statement, UNIFED President Manuel Lamata said this proposal by EPAP was already thumbed down by members of the Bioethanol...
Amid the shortfall in the country's sugar production, the Philippine government has allowed the importation of the sweetener until October of this year, with Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) expecting the entry of nearly 86,000 metric tons (MT) of additional imported sugar. As this happened,...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has flagged a possible sugar smuggling scheme employed by unscrupulous traders taking advantage of the Sugar Regulatory Administration’s (SRA) export replenishment program. In a statement on Monday, July 12, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said he has...
The country's sugar output for the current crop year has already surpassed the government's revised target. The problem is that the quality of the portion of the production has been compromised due to heavy rains. In a text exchange, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) Administrator Hermenegildo...
