The Philippine sugar industry todayThe sugar industry was recently shaken by the confusion of signals within the government on whether there was a need to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar. The sugar industry today is very different from the sugar industry of old. The old sugar industry was a truly export competitive industry that served a very large export market. The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), which superseded the SQA as the regulator of the sugar industry, is designed to resolve the conflicting interests of sugar planters, millers, and consumers in the industry. The literature analyzing the problems of the sugar industry is sparse despite the fact that much literature on the sugar industry has been an analysis of past problems of the old sugar industry.

Source: Philippine Star November 01, 2022 19:21 UTC