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SRA, pinag-aaralan ang pag-angkat ng hanggang 200,000 MT ng asukal para mapigilan ang pagtaas ng presyo
SRA, pinag-aaralan ang pag-angkat ng hanggang 200,000 MT ng asukal para mapigilan ang pagtaas ng presyo
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00:00 In our next news, the Sugar Regulatory Administration is targeting the acquisition of up to 200,000 metric tons of sugar.
00:08 This is also due to the severe effect of El Niño on crops.
00:12 Here is the report of Clayzel Cordilla.
00:14 It seems that this crop was washed away in the barangay Manghanoy, La Castellana, in Negros Occidental,
00:23 in the heat of the El Niño.
00:25 The crops in the barangay Kamandag are also in the gutter and are dying.
00:30 Some irrigation water pumps were abandoned,
00:33 and there is no water to be pumped.
00:35 This is the story of some sugarcane producers.
00:37 According to the Department of Agriculture,
00:47 the agricultural and fisheries sector is now worth P6.35 billion.
00:55 The DA has distributed more than P2 billion in financial aid,
00:59 water and other means of production to be able to plant again.
01:04 But despite the success of El Niño,
01:07 the production of sugar has increased to 1.9 million metric tons this year.
01:11 This is higher than 1.79 million metric tons in 2023.
01:17 But it is still not enough to meet the needs of the country,
01:21 which has more than 2 million metric tons of sugar for the whole year.
01:25 That's why the Sugar Regulatory Administration is looking at the possible increase of 185 to 200,000 metric tons of sugar.
01:34 We have ample stock. The stock is stable, the price is stable, and the retail is stable.
01:41 We are just maintaining it.
01:43 What we are preventing is a drop in supply to a level where the market will be insecure.
01:50 The retail market will be insecure, the retail consumer will experience a spike in price.
01:57 In case of approval, imported sugar will arrive before the milling season or the grinding of sugar so that it will not be affected by our local sugar farmers.
02:07 According to the SRA, importation will be suspended if the supply of sugar drops.
02:15 At present, the raw and refined or white sugar inventory is worth 1.1 million metric tons.
02:22 Almost all the mills will end by May. We will need the sugar by September to October, which is the start of the milling season.
02:33 In refined sugar, if we start September 15 or let's say October 1, the first refined sugar in the market will take about three weeks to a month from the start.
02:47 That's what the government and our President are looking at. At that time, there should be no shortage.
02:53 Unifed is supportive of the expected increase in sugar.
02:57 They said that the supply should not wait for the price to drop and that some businessmen should manipulate the price.
03:03 It will not affect us in the milling season because we are already done. We've ended milling.
03:08 So no problem. We still have a lot of stock. But then from now up to September, our nation will eat it.
03:16 This is just right for our sugar by August. We're done. So our solution is...
03:25 Based on the price monitoring of the DA, the price of white sugar varies from P73 to P100 per kilo.
03:32 Kalay Zalpardilia for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Pilipinas.