BACOLOD CITY: Negros leaders and senators are planning to call for a sugar summit early next year to discuss the crafting of a plan to make the Philippine sugar industry globally competitive for it to survive.

Negros Occidental Fifth District Rep. Emilio Yulo told The Manila Times that the sugar summit is a suggestion of Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Benitez during a meeting with Senators Jose Victor Ejercito and Sherwin Gatchalian who were in the city Friday.

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