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 | | By MELODY M. Philippine export of organicallygrown muscovado sugar, facing an organic food market of $13 billion worldwide, is expected to be boosted by the Philippine Development Assistance Program’s (PDAP) technology-upgrading, crop financing, and marketing. |
 | | But the muscovado program will involve small farmers that have immersed for a long time in the production of muscovado which comes from sugarcane juice through evaporation and draining of molasses. |
 | | Muscovado is produced in Negros Occidental, Antique, Abra, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Batangas, Bukidnon, Davao del Sur, and Sultan Kudarat involving 2,852 farmers who till 2,110 hectares, PDAP said. |
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