
Marcos: Sugar sufficient, ‘no need to import just yet’
President Ferdinand Marcos explains the state of the country's sugar supply.*President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Sunday that the country has sufficient supply of sugar and “there is no need to import just yet”.Marcos, in his weekly blog, stressed that there is enough local supply that should be consumed first before the country resorts to importation, a press release from the Office of the Press Secretary said Monday, August 15.But Marcos noted that the supply might dwindle by October.“There is a possibility that by October, our supply in the Philippines will be depleted. We might need to import”, he said but not as much as 300,000 metric tons.“Perhaps 150,000 (metric) tons would be good for the entire year,” he said.Malacañang earlier called for a probe into the...









