Senate unanimous against liberalizing the sugar industry 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Vanne Elaine TerrazolaThe Senate is appealing to the government not to liberalize the country’s sugar industry. “The Senate is against the liberalization of the Sugar industry,” Zubiri, who has been vocal about his opposition on the proposed sugar liberalization, said in sponsoring the resolution. “The SIDA of 2015 is barely four years into effect, and much of the programs and projects it envisions to implement for the development of the sugar industry are not yet fully realized, thus, any plan of liberalizing the sugar industry will be irrelevant and very untimely,” it stated. There are about 84,000 sugar farmers and 720,000 workers in the sugar industry, the resolution mentioned.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 11, 2019 15:03 UTC