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Philippines sees 2.4mn T sugar output in 2011/12
MANILA : The Philippines expects sugar output in crop year ending August 2012 to reach around 2.4 million tonnes, about
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"We are now working together with sugar planters and millers to determine the ideal export allocation for 2011/12 crop year," Regina Bautista-Martin, chief of state agency Sugar Regulatory Administration, told Reuters in a phone interview on Friday.
"There will be more exports on top of our sugar quota commitments to the US," she said.
The Southeast Asian country closed the 2010/11 crop year on Aug. 31 with total raw sugar output of 2.39 million tonnes, the highest in three years and up 21 percent from 2009/10.
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