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March 23, 2015 Visayan Daily Star by Rene Genove | http://goo.gl/lNoLzE

DAR-Negros Oriental will distribute  eight sets of  farm facilities to identified agrarian reform beneficiaries’ organizations, or ARBOs, in Negros Oriental when the required  documents are ready.

Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II, Louie Naranjo, said the farm facilities…

March 21, 2015 Visayan Daily Star by Carla Gomez | http://goo.gl/zCmkML  

Sugar Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina  Martin said yesterday that  a request to delay  the imposition of its recently reimposed   12 percent advance Value-Added Tax on raw and refined sugar until next crop year, is being made at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. 

She is relaying…

March 20, 2015 Visayan Daily Star by Modesto Saonoy | http://goo.gl/4ARQpt

The conflict between the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the sugar producers – millers and planters – is getting serious as the BIR presses hard on the producers on the value added tax on sugar. The problem that arose from the advance withholding tax has deteriorated so that the BIR, through the…

March 19, 2015 Philippine Daily Inquirer by Ronnel Domingo | http://goo.gl/cT9cYp  

MANILA,  Philippines–Domestic production of raw sugar is expected to fall short of the 2.5 million-ton goal for the current crop year that ends in July, prompting regulators to scrap export allocations for countries other than the United States.

According to Regina Martin,…

March 19, 2015 The Philippine Star by Richmond Mercurio | http://goo.gl/fldWUM

MANILA, Philippines - A subsidiary of sugar group Roxas Holdings Inc. (RHI) has acquired a significant stake in the country’s second largest ethanol company for P420 million.

In a disclosure to the local bourse, RHI said Roxas Pacific Bioenergy Corp. had purchased on 26.7 percent stake…