“Let’s keep sugar sweet, not only for the planters, but also for the workers, for a healthy sugar industry.”

That came from Senator Miguel Zubiri, who was the keynote speaker at the Stakeholders Conference and Annual General Assembly of the Sugar Industry Foundation Inc. in Bacolod City held yesterday amid the continuing need to provide support services to about 30,000 sugar workers, mill employees and their dependents.

Zubiri said that SIFI has done a wonderful job of providing the heart and soul of the sugar industry and called on his fellow sugar planters to also continue giving donations to SIFI.

Norwegian envoy
visits Alter Trade sites

Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar met with the leaders of 24 farmers’ organizations at the Hacienda Isabel Project in La Castellana supported by Alter Trade Foundation during his recent visit to Negros Occidental to look into various approaches on building peace in the Philippines, a press release from Alter Trade said.

The dialog was attended by Mayor Alberto Nicor of La Castellana.

In the press release, Alter Trade said Brattskar, the Third Party facilitator of the peace talks between the National Democratic Front and the government peace panel, had stated that the Royal Norwegian Government can contribute by helping the government and the NDF to bring peace to the country, because if there is peace there will be rapid economic growth.

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