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ABOUT SUGAR ALLIANCE
OF THE PHILIPPINES

The Sugar Alliance of the Philippines
is an umbrella organization of sugar
planters and millers which seeks to
promote the development of the sugar
industry by working/achieving a more
favorable policy environment that protects the interests of the whole industry.

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World Sugar Prices
9 July 2010
     
London No. 5 white $ 589.90/ton
NY No. 11 raw 17.06 USc/lb
NY No. 14 raw USc/lb
Domestic Millsite Prices
27 May 2010
     Average
A = P 1,028.00/ Lkg
B = P 1,768.00/ Lkg
C = P /Lkg
D = P /Lkg
Molasses = P 8,645.00/ Ton
Featured Articles

Green trash reduces herbicide run-off

The move to minimum till farming and green trash blanketing has led to the significant reduction in sediment movement across cane growing regions. Such is the success of the practice that sediment movement from sugarcane is no longer considered a major priority compared to other water quality concerns.

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Major Brands No Longer Sweet on High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Gatorade, Wheat Thins Among Products Ditching HFCS for Sugar NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bowing to consumer demands, major brands are removing high-fructose corn syrup from some of their products in favor of sugar. Few, however, are shouting it from the rooftops as it would cast a shadow on those products that still contain HFCS.

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Sugar Facts

SRA's Crop Estimates CY 2009-2010

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Announcements
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Sugar News

Local

Rojas calls on Cebu customs: Halt rampant sugar smuggling

category: Sugar News - Local (published: 07/14/2010)
The Sugar Anti-Smuggling Office reports clearly indicate that sugar smuggling is rampant in Cebu, Enrique Rojas, president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, informed Bureau of Customs Port Collector Ronnie Silvestre of the Port of Cebu.

Thai sugar seized at Cebu port

category: (published: 07/08/2010)
Smuggled sugar has been entering Cebu, in fact a shipment was intercepted recently, National Federation of Sugarcane Planters president, Enrique Rojas, insisted yesterday.

More smuggled sugar seized

category: Sugar News - Local (published: 07/13/2010)
Operatives of the Sugar Anti-Smuggling Office, the Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Customs seized suspected smuggled sugar in two raids in Cebu recently, the Sugar Alliance of the Philippines reported yesterday.

Foreign

US soft drinks drifting back towards sugar

category: Sugar News - Foreign (published: 07/06/2010)
Soft drinks in the United States are trending back towards sugar, with the recent announcement by The Dr Pepper Snapple Group that it will switch Dr Pepper back to sugar from high-fructose corn syrup, for a limited time as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations. The reformulated product will also bear nostalgic Dr Pepper slogans and can designs.

Brazil Sugar-Cane Crop May Yield More Than Expected, Biagi Says

category: Sugar News - Foreign (published: 06/01/2010)
June 1 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil may produce more sugar and ethanol than expected as cold and dry weather helps boost cane yields in the country’s Center South, the world’s largest producing region, grower Maurilio Biagi Filho said.
As of January 17, 2010
 

CY 09-10

(MT)

CY 08-09

(MT)

Difference

% Inc/Dec

Raw Production 1,077,276 939,245 138,031 14.70%
Raw W/drawal 722,816 645,702 77,114 11.94%
Stock Balance 524,725 506,211 18,514 3.66%
Refined Production 388,931 274,403 114,528 41.74%
Refined W/drawal 443,264 383,026 60,238 15.73%
Stock Balance 124,735 187,318 -62,583 -33.41%
LKG/TC 1.99 1.91 0.08 4.19%
Tons Cane Milled 10,847,168 9,834,107 1,013,061 10.30%
         
Luzon 104,791 109,971 -5,180 -4.71%
Negros 714,170 641,589 72,581 11.31%
Panay 61,697 39,044 22,653 58.02%
E.Vis 29,498 20,647 8,851 42.87%
Mindanao 167,120 127,994 39,126

 30.57%

TOTAL 1,077,276 939,245 138,031 14.70%