THE Sugar Regulatory Administration is studying the need for more sugar importation to temper speculation amid tightness in supply caused by the prevailing dry spell, Ma. Bautista-Martin, administrator of the state-run SRA, said Friday.
Preliminary data showed sugar production at 1.94 million metric tons as of March 30, while the country is expected to produce 2.14 MMT of sugar for crop year 2015-16, or 8 percent lower compared to 2.32 MMT in the previous crop year.
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