AN expert said that the country has been experiencing a shortage in the supply of refined sugar in the last eight years or since 2013.

Ateneo de Manila Department of Economics professor Dr. Karlo Fermin Adriano noted that the yearly shortage in the supply of refined sugar was pegged at 384,000 metric tons (MT) from 2013 to 2021.

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