Tag page - sugar imports

House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto asserted on Tuesday, Aug. 16, that the importation of the right volume of sugar must be “solely based on science and insulated from lobby and politics.” Batangas 6th District Rep. Ralph Recto (Senate PRIB) In doing so, Recto said in a statement, sugar demand and...

Senator Imee Marcos on Wednesday, April 6 exposed an alleged new "midnight deal" on sugar imports. In a statement, Marcos called on Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar to desist from signing a new order to import 350,000 metric tons of sugar. ‘’Agriculture is already an epic...

The possibility of the government opening up the local market to more imported sugar remains to be one of the major factors why the country’s local sugar production is seen not improving this year or in the next years to come.   This, according to international data, has remained to be “the...