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June 2, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/DWp6XR

Senators Grace Poe and Chiz Ecudero yesterday held a consultation with Negros Occidental officials to ensure that the Sugarcane Industry Development Act is implemented properly, including its PHP2 billion to be annually allocated to strengthen the competitiveness and diversification efforts of the industry, according to the…

June 2, 2015Louine Hope Conserva (Business World) | http://goo.gl/P0g2MZ

ILOILO CITY -- Sugar industry stakeholders met here last week with officials of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to discuss the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for Republic Act No. 10659, the Sugarcane Industry Development Act of 2015, signed into law last March 27.  

 

The…

June 2, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/2lDqpG

The Philippines said on Tuesday it was scrapping export plans in favour of allocating to the domestic market all its sugar output, beginning from the last week of May and over the next three months, as it seeks to rein in rising local prices, according to Reuters.

 

The move is unlikely to affect the global…

June 1, 2015Amando Doronila (Philippine Daily Inquirer )| http://goo.gl/O9wulX

The sugar bloc, once the most powerful economic and political lobby group in the country, is staging a revival in the wake of the push for the candidacy of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas as successor to President Aquino.

Bacolod City in Negros Occidental, the resurgent sugar industry’s…

June 1, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/7zyLjS

The government has bowed down to the cartel of sugar millers who will be earning PKR100 million (US$1 million) from the national kitty on the supply of sugar to consumers in Ramadan, according to Pakistan's Express Tribune newspaper.

 

In order to provide benefit to sugar mills, the government has reduced…