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                    [Title] => Sugar workers’ foundation wins Kabalikat Award
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                    [Title] => NFA asked to give up importation role
                    [Summary] => Sugar producers urged the National Food Authority (NFA) to relinquish its authority to import sugar, saying this practice hurts the interest of local sugar planters.


Reacting to NFA’s statement that sugar importations prevented unreasonable increases in local sugar prices, the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc. (NFSP) said the state-owned trading agency’s importations are done without prior consultations and coordination with the sugar industry.


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                    [Title] => Planters want to export sugar for domestic use
                    [Summary] => Sugar planters are seeking authority to export "B" sugar or sugar allocated for domestic consumption during the peak milling season to prevent local prices from freefalling.


National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc. (NFSP) president Enrique D. Rojas said planters who are quedan holders should be authorized to export their "B" sugar at the height of the milling season to ensure that the domestic market is not flooded with excess supply which often depresses sugar prices.


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                    [Title] => Sugarmen laud NFA move to freeze auctions
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The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc. (NFSP) said such a move will help stabilize farmgate and consumer prices.


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                    [Title] => Producers call for sugar summit
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National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc. (NFSP) president Enrique D. Rojas, in a letter to Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) Administrator Nicolas A. Alonso, said sugar planters "strongly feel there is a need for a concerted action among the major players in the sugar industry," as sugar prices are going south.


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Sugar sector urges tight watch on smuggling

By Marianne V. Go | April 25, 2010 - 12:00am

Local sugar planters and producers are urging the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to keep a tight watch on the entry of smuggled sugar or sugar importations outside of those allowed by the Sugar Regulatory Administration...

Business

Sugar workers’ foundation wins Kabalikat Award

September 14, 2003 - 12:00am

The NFSP Sugar Workers Foundation Inc. Technical Skills Training Center was granted the 2003 Kabalikat Award "by the Department of Labor and Employment and the Technical Education Skills Development Authority...

Agriculture

NFA asked to give up importation role

By Rocel Felix | December 12, 2000 - 12:00am

Sugar producers urged the National Food Authority (NFA) to relinquish its authority to import sugar, saying this practice hurts the interest of local sugar planters. Reacting to NFA’s statement that sugar importations...

Business

Planters want to export sugar for domestic use

By Rocel Felix | November 29, 2000 - 12:00am

Sugar planters are seeking authority to export "B" sugar or sugar allocated for domestic consumption during the peak milling season to prevent local prices from freefalling. National Federation of Sugarcane...

Business

Sugarmen laud NFA move to freeze auctions

By Rocel Felix | November 8, 2000 - 12:00am

Sugar producers lauded yesterday the decision of the National Food Authority (NFA) to suspend the auctioning of sugar to traders and industrial users for the rest of the year. The National Federation of Sugarcane...

Business

Producers call for sugar summit

By Rocel Felix | November 3, 2000 - 12:00am

Sugar producers are calling for a sugar summit to address declining millgate prices of raw sugar. National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Inc. (NFSP) president Enrique D. Rojas, in a letter to Sugar Regulatory...

Business

NFSP program for sugar workers set

February 6, 2000 - 12:00am

The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters (NFSP) is set to implement starting this year a five-year program for the development and improvement of the socio-economic well-being of workers in the sugar industry. NFSP...

Business