Sugar board exec urges hike in farmers’ trucking allowance amid crisis

BACOLOD CITY — Sugar Regulatory Board Member David Andrew Sanson on Wednesday, March 25, said he is appealing to all sugar mills nationwide to increase the allowance they give sugar farmers for delivering cane to the milling plants, in light of the rising fuel costs. Sanson, planters representative on the Sugar Board, in his letter to the mills, sought an “increase in trucking allowance and other measures to augment government relief efforts in addressing the sudden and steep surge of fuel prices due to the ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East”. In Negros Island, which produces more than 60 […]... Keep on reading: Sugar board exec urges hike in farmers’ trucking allowance amid crisis

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