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This undated file photo shows sugar cane farmers in Negros Occidental province. PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN
THESE are the dominant themes from the commentariat on the current sugar industry woes, mainly the supply shortages and price hikes, and the unbelievable chutzpah of a sub-cabinet official of the Department of Agriculture, Leocadio Sebastian, who cleared a 300,000 MT importation by signing for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.