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LAHUG, Cebu City – The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is projecting sugar production for cropyear 2006-2007 to reach 2.42 million metric tons, five percent more than the 2.137 million tons produced in the previous crop.


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                    [Title] => US increases sugar quota of RP
                    [Summary] => The United States wants to import more raw sugar from the Philippines this year due to a drastic drop in US sugarcane crops caused by three hurricanes.


The US Trade Representative’s Office informed the Philippine government that it is increasing the Philippines’ 35,000-metric ton raw sugar share in the US tariff rate quota (TRQ) given in October last year by an additional 37,037 tons. The US pays a premium for the sugar it imports under the TRQ.


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                    [Title] => Outcry vs PRC withholding of nurses’ exam results
                    [Summary] => One can get distracted. That’s what happened to me when the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) withheld the results of the exams of some West Negros College students who had taken the recent nursing board examinations.


Those who failed to receive their test results were mostly "second coursers," which means that they took up nursing despite the fact that most of them were already graduates of other courses and were already practicing physicians, engineers and teachers.


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                    [Title] => Altering perceptions of the New Year
                    [Summary] => Sometimes, year-end developments can drastically alter people’s perception of the coming year. Two major events in Negros Occidental have changed people’s expectation of the new year.


The first was the outcry against the decision of the Sugar Regulatory Administration to cut down millgate prices of sugar. A unilateral decision by most sugar producers, the move has unleased such a furor in the province.


The second was the alleged hijacking of a 10-wheeler truck of Columbia Marketing in Hacienda Carmenchika, Pontevedra Thursday night. 


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                    [Title] => Paggamit ng ethanol, ethyl alcohol sa sasakyan ok na sa Kamara
                    [Summary] => Ipinasa na ng House Committee on Energy ang panukalang batas na naglalayong gamitin bilang alternatibong gasolina sa mga sasakyan ang ethanol o ethyl alcohol.


Ayon kay Bukidnon Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri, awtor ng panukala, panahon na para hanapan ang ibang source o pagkukunan ng alternatibong gasolina para sa sasakyan dulot na rin ng pagtataas ng presyo ng produktong petrolyo.


Layunin din ng panukala na mapalakas ang produksyon ng asukal at madagdagan ang bilang ng trabaho sa mga Pilipino kapag napalakas ang paggamit ng non-conventional source ng enerhiya.


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                    [Title] => A ‘sunrise industry’ once again
                    [Summary] => The local sugar industry has emerged from the distress years in the 1980s and 1990s to become once again a "sunrise industry" of the country.


And now it can be said: the industry’s dramatic turnaround can be considerably attributed to the Mill District Development Councils (MDDCs).


MDDCs are grassroots-level groups tasked with implementing sugar productivity enhancement programs in their respective sugar milling districts.


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                    [Title] => Sugar producers seek P1-B bailout from gov’t
                    [Summary] => Local sugar producers are again asking for a P1-billion bailout from the Arroyo administration to dispose of surplus production and prevent millgate prices from falling.


The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) has endorsed to President Arroyo the request of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association (Confed) to classify at least 10 percent of the sugar production for cropyear (CY) 2004-2005 as "C" or reserve sugar, the release will entirely be at the discretion of the SRA.


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                    [Title] => Sugar harvest hits record high 2.338 million MT
                    [Summary] => Sugar harvest for cropyear (CY) 2003-2004 hit a record high of 2.338 million metric tons (MT), a shade above the target of 2.3 million MT. 


Data from the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) show that as of Aug. 22 this year, sugar production was at 2,338,574 MT or 38,574 MT more than the 2.3 million projected yield for CY 2003-2004. The sugar cropping season starts in September and ends in August of the following year. 


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                    [Title] => GMA to Philsucor: Import fertilizer
                    [Summary] => President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged the Philippine Sugar Corp. board last Wednesday to import fertilizer in a bid to bring down the soaring cost of fertilizer and reduce production cost of basic commodities, including sugar.


This, after GMA asked sugar leaders to help lower the prices of corn, rice and sugar to ease the plight of the common consumer.


Apparently, the President was aware that sugarmen have been complaining about the rising cost of fertilizer which is now more than the price of sugar per bag.


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                    [Title] => Breakthrough in fight vs sugar smuggling
                    [Summary] => The report hit Negrenses, especially the sugar producers, like a blockbuster. That was an achievement which they hope the National Anti-Smuggling Task Force under Secretary Angelo Reyes and the Sugar Regulatory Administration can sustain. 


The story involved the interception of three ships loaded with 18,000 bags of smuggled sugar off Batangas last Monday. The task force that seized the smuggled sugar were composed of members of the Philippine Navy and the Batangas police. 


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The US Trade Representative’s Office informed the Philippine government that it is increasing the Philippines’ 35,000-metric ton raw sugar share in the US tariff rate quota (TRQ) given in October last year by an additional 37,037 tons. The US pays a premium for the sugar it imports under the TRQ.


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Those who failed to receive their test results were mostly "second coursers," which means that they took up nursing despite the fact that most of them were already graduates of other courses and were already practicing physicians, engineers and teachers.


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The first was the outcry against the decision of the Sugar Regulatory Administration to cut down millgate prices of sugar. A unilateral decision by most sugar producers, the move has unleased such a furor in the province.


The second was the alleged hijacking of a 10-wheeler truck of Columbia Marketing in Hacienda Carmenchika, Pontevedra Thursday night. 


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                    [Summary] => Ipinasa na ng House Committee on Energy ang panukalang batas na naglalayong gamitin bilang alternatibong gasolina sa mga sasakyan ang ethanol o ethyl alcohol.


Ayon kay Bukidnon Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri, awtor ng panukala, panahon na para hanapan ang ibang source o pagkukunan ng alternatibong gasolina para sa sasakyan dulot na rin ng pagtataas ng presyo ng produktong petrolyo.


Layunin din ng panukala na mapalakas ang produksyon ng asukal at madagdagan ang bilang ng trabaho sa mga Pilipino kapag napalakas ang paggamit ng non-conventional source ng enerhiya.


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MDDCs are grassroots-level groups tasked with implementing sugar productivity enhancement programs in their respective sugar milling districts.


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The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) has endorsed to President Arroyo the request of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association (Confed) to classify at least 10 percent of the sugar production for cropyear (CY) 2004-2005 as "C" or reserve sugar, the release will entirely be at the discretion of the SRA.


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Data from the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) show that as of Aug. 22 this year, sugar production was at 2,338,574 MT or 38,574 MT more than the 2.3 million projected yield for CY 2003-2004. The sugar cropping season starts in September and ends in August of the following year. 


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This, after GMA asked sugar leaders to help lower the prices of corn, rice and sugar to ease the plight of the common consumer.


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The story involved the interception of three ships loaded with 18,000 bags of smuggled sugar off Batangas last Monday. The task force that seized the smuggled sugar were composed of members of the Philippine Navy and the Batangas police. 


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