PHILIPPINES SUGAR TRADE
No Export Until 1947 One of Manila's leading business I men, who has had 35 years’ trading experience in the Philippine Islands, recently summarised his ideas regarding the post-war outlook for sugar in his country. He confidently predicts that there will be no notable amount of sugar exported until 1947. at least. He points out that the Philippines people passively resisted Japanese attempts to Induce them to cultivate the crop and that the few who co-operated had their crops set afire by guerrillas. But the sugar lands in liberated areas, according to the International Sugar Journal, will first have to be cleared, a job which is made difficult by the very serious shortage of hauling equipment and by the scarcity of carihaos. the water-buffaloes, which are widely used as work animals in the Philippines. Thousands of them were slaughtered by the Japanese lor food, and most of those now remaining must be preserved for breeding purposes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23314, 25 September 1945, Page 7
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159PHILIPPINES SUGAR TRADE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23314, 25 September 1945, Page 7
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