![]() ''They are the only ones buying our sugar at prices that help us stay alive,'' he said. government is paying 18 to 21 cents per pound for Philippine sugar when demand for artificial sweeteners and a flood of European sugar beets has pushed the world price of sugar down to about 3 cents per pound. Salvador Laguda, president of the Philippine National Development Bank in Bacolod, points out that the U.S. ''There is no justifiable reason why the country should be deprived of it.'' ''America is obligated to restore that quota,'' he said. should restore the old Laurel-Langley sugar quota of 980,000 tons per year from the Philippines. 27, Nolan, a former ambassador, said that the U.S. The priest supports a theory espoused by Ramon Nolan, former Philippine Sugar Institute chairman, who says American officials encouraged the Philippines to revamp its sugar industry in 1959, when Cuba stopped exporting 3.2 million tons of sugar per year to the U.S. ''I have the feeling that ever since we began planting sugar for export, we were on the road to doom.'' went out to serve its short-term needs at the expense of the Filipino people,'' says Father Gordoncillo. Baby Gordoncillo, a young priest who likes Camel cigarettes, comfortable jogging shoes and striped pullovers, agrees. Immediately, what happens in New York (on the sugar market) has an impact on the lowly worker here in Negros.'' (President Ferdinand) Marcos with the U.S., especially in the sugar industry. ''It`s really an anti-Marcos sentiment, but the grass roots associate Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga, author of a just-published study entitled ''Crisis and Poverty in Sugarlandia.'' But the crisis is almost certain to continue because the U.S. The Philippine government says it wants to ease the problem next year by limiting production to 1.3 million tons. The sugar surplus is so great and the money shortage so severe that ripe cane stands unharvested in the hot sun when cutters should be working from dawn to dusk and mills should be grinding around the clock. between 19, down years for the Philippines.įor 1984-85, the Philippine sugar quota was only 312,000 tons out of a predicted harvest of 1.6 million tons. ![]() The quota system was reinstituted in 1982, but the new quotas were based on countries` average sugar exports to the U.S.
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