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[Title] => Philippines keeps US sugar quota, gets 2nd highest allocation
[Summary] => The Philippines has secured a 145,235 metric ton raw value export quota for raw cane sugar to the United States, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative.
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[Title] => Pest attack continues to threaten sugar industry
[Summary] => The country’s sugar production may decrease to one million tons next year if the infestation caused by the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI) on sugarcane plantations in the Visayas will not be contained, according to the United Federation of Sugar Producers.
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[Title] => Philippines bans imports of bioethanol feedstock
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[Title] => Industriya ng asukal patatagin - solon
[Summary] => Pinaaamyendahan ni Negros Occidental 3rd District Rep. Javier Miguel Benitez ang Republic Act No. 10659 o ang Sugarcane Industry Development Act of 2015 (SIDA). Ito ay para simulan ang malawakang reporma para patatagin ang industriya ng asukal.
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