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[Title] => Nagbenta ng kalabaw, tinodas
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[DatePublished] => 2008-05-10 00:00:00
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[Title] => SRA sees 8% hike in sugar output
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production for crop year (CY) 2006-2007 which starts in September is projected to be five to eight percent higher than the current crop year’s estimated yield of 2.04 million metric tons (MT).
Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) head James Ledesma said in an interview at the International Sugar Organization’s (ISO) International Sugar Development Forum, that farmers, encouraged by rising demand for sugar and improved sugar produces, are likely to increase their hectarage for CY 2006-2007.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-26 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
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[Title] => SRA sees 8% hike in sugar output
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production for crop year (CY) 2006-2007 which starts in September is projected to be five to eight percent higher than the current crop year’s estimated yield of 2.04 million metric tons (MT).
Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) head James Ledesma said in an interview at the International Sugar Organization’s (ISO) International Sugar Development Forum, that farmers, encouraged by rising demand for sugar and improved sugar produces, are likely to increase their hectarage for CY 2006-2007.
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[Title] => RP won’t import sugar next year
[Summary] => The Philippines may not buy sugar in 2007, after importing about 50,000 metric tons this year, as rising prices of the sweetener have encouraged farmers to plant more, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) head James Ledesma said.
The Philippines may have a surplus of 200,000 metric tons next year as sugar production is forecast to rise 8.3 percent to 2.2 million metric tons, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-24 00:00:00
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[Title] => Philsurin develops sugarcane biofertilizer
[Summary] => Exciting developments are taking place in the search for a substitute for expensive chemical sugarcane fertilizers. Should the experiments succeed, the cost of fertilizer application may be greatly reduced in the future.
Long applied to rice, corn and other crops in the Philippines, biofertilizers have not been developed for sugarcane, notwithstanding that sugarcane also requires large amounts of fertilizers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => Barking up the wrong tree
[Summary] => The fact that sugar is such a highly politicized crop is evident once more in Negros Occidental as politicians look for someone to pin the blame on for the drop in sugar prices.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-15 00:00:00
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[Title] => Why are sugar prices high if there is overproduction?
[Summary] => Despite the huge decline in millgate prices of sugar, traders are not reducing their retail prices and continue to charge consumers peak prices, industry observers said yesterday.
Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) officials said the retail prices of sugar should have gone down by as much as P2 per kilo had traders passed on to consumer the significant drop in millgate prices.
But the price of sugar in Metro Manila remains at the level of P27 to P28 per kilo, its highest price for the crop year that stared in September 2002 and ended in August 2003.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => BIR asked to exclude raw cane sugar from 10% VAT
[Summary] => The Senate committee on ways and means is pressing the Bureau of Internal Revenue to exclude raw cane sugar from the payment of the 10-percent value-added tax (VAT).
In a recent hearing, Sen. Ralph Recto, chairman of the ways and means committee, said the Tax Reform Act of 1997 already exempted raw cane sugar in the payment of VAT, but the BIR continued to impose the tax when it issued Regulation 29-2002.
Instead of subjecting raw cane sugar and other sugar products to the VAT, Recto urged the BIR to intensify its efforts to collect VAT on refined sugar.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-13 00:00:00
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[Title] => Sugar production seen to hit 10-yr high
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production for cropyear (CY) 2002-2003 ending this August is expected to hit a 10-year production high of 2.13 million metric tons (MT), making the Philippines self-sufficient for the first time in more than a decade.
This CY’s sugar output is 12.7 percent higher than CY 2001-2002’s 1.89 million MT – more than enough to meet domestic requirements and its export commitments under the US sugar program.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => RP, Thailand to sign sugar pact
[Summary] => The Philippines is set to sign a bilateral agreement with Thailand which will allow the former to retain higher tariff rates on imported sugar.
Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) head James Ledesma said the signing is likely to take place next month when both governments have firmed up their respective positions.
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