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                    [Summary] => Sometimes, year-end developments can drastically alter people’s perception of the coming year. Two major events in Negros Occidental have changed people’s expectation of the new year.


The first was the outcry against the decision of the Sugar Regulatory Administration to cut down millgate prices of sugar. A unilateral decision by most sugar producers, the move has unleased such a furor in the province.


The second was the alleged hijacking of a 10-wheeler truck of Columbia Marketing in Hacienda Carmenchika, Pontevedra Thursday night. 


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An official of the Philippine Sugar Millers Association (PSMA) said negotiations were firmed up recently for the export of 30,000 MT raw sugar pegged at P450 per 50-kilogram bag. 


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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.  


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Altering perceptions of the New Year

By THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina | January 3, 2006 - 12:00am

Sometimes, year-end developments can drastically alter people’s perception of the coming year. Two major events in Negros Occidental have changed people’s expectation of the new year. The first was the...

Nation

RP to export 30,000MT raw sugar in next six months

By Rocel Felix | August 5, 2004 - 12:00am

Sugar producers are exporting an initial 30,000 metric tons (MT) of raw sugar to the world market in the next six months as part of the industry’s effort to dispose surplus production and keep domestic sugar...

Business

Why are sugar prices high if there is overproduction?

By Rocel Felix | January 9, 2004 - 12:00am

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...

Headlines