President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the importation of sugar through selected importers, Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban revealed on Tuesday before the Senate blue ribbon committee.
Pressed by Sen. Francis Tolentino to clarify what Marcos told him after a Cabinet meeting, Agriculture Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban said the president directed him to “import through selected importers of sugar.”
'The importation was not an effort at cartelization, nor was it about government smuggling of sugar,' Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin tells senators
EXECUTIVE Secretary Lucas Bersamin yesterday said a sugar order is not necessary for the government to import sugar. Bersamin spoke during a hearing of the.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): A group of sugarcane planters has called on the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to make an inventory of the country’s sugar stockpile, including the entry of 440,000 metric tonnes (MT) of imported sugar under the last importation order allowed by the agency.