To safeguard the welfare of farmers as well as farm and mill workers in the sugar industry, labor groups said they were opposing the government’s plan to import 450,000 metric tons of refined sugar this year. | carlapgomezINQ /PDI
which he also heads, the Sugar Regulatory Administration , and sugar planters’ groups, according to Wennie Sancho, convenor of the Save the Sugar Industry Movement.‘Dead season’
“With the importation of the 450,000 MT of refined sugar and the full liberalization of the industry, sugar farmworkers will have their ‘tiempos muertos ’ not only for three months, but for a lifetime,” the labor manifesto said. “With this, prices will come down in the retail and the millgate prices will adjust to the level where it should be,” he said, adding that his group also wanted to protect its biggest market—the ordinary Filipinos.
The SRA will submit its import proposal next week even if the sugar price still exceeds P100 per kilogram, SRA board member Pablo Luis Azcona told the Inquirer in Manila. The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters said it also wanted an explanation from the SRA on how it arrived at the indicated import volume.“The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters remains consistent in our position that the importation should be only for the specific volume needed for the buffer stock, and it should arrive in several properly scheduled tranches after the milling season,” federation president Enrique Rojas told the Inquirer.
It decided on the importation as both the wholesale and the retail prices of raw and refined sugar reached record highs following Typhoon “Odette” in December 2021.
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