THE country’s sugar workers said the government’s call for additional importation of sugar and molasses would lower the wages of about 780,000 sugar planters or worst, make them lose their jobs.
In a statement dated October 1, the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) opposed the additional importation of 300,000 metric tons of refined sugar supposedly to combat inflation and the import of molasses being proposed by bioethanol companies.
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