1、 1 Required Report:Required-Public Distribution Date:April 16,2025 Report Number:RP2025-0023 Report Name:Sugar Annual Country:Philippines Post:Manila Report Category:Sugar Prepared By:Florence Mojica-Sevilla Approved By:Michael Ward Report Highlights:FAS Manila forecasts marketing year(MY)2026 raw s

2、ugar production to remain flat at 1.85 million metric tons(MT).Ample rainfall during the planting season which started in October supported sugarcane planting among farms with no irrigation.Sugar imports will continue to stabilize supply and prices in the domestic market.Post forecasts refined impor

3、ts of 300,000 MT(321,000 MT raw sugar equivalent)in MY 2026 per Sugar Order No.5 released on March 12,2025,and Sugar Order No 2,released on February 7,2025.Post expects the Philippines to fulfill its 2025 U.S.WTO sugar tariff-rate quota allocation of 66,000 metric tons raw value(MTRV).At this time,P

4、ost forecasts zero exports in MY 2026.2 Production:Centrifugal Sugar(Raw Sugar).For marketing year(MY)2026(September 2025 to August 2026),Post forecasts sugar production to remain flat at 1.85 million metric ton(MT).Farmers will continue to plant sugarcane despite the downward trend of mill site pri

5、ces in MY 2025 in anticipation of increases in MY 2026.Planting started in October 2024 and will end in May 2025.Ample rainfall supported sugarcane planting in the past six months(October 2024 to March 2025)in major sugarcane areas in Negros Occidental(61 percent),Bukidnon(15 percent),Panay(8 percen

6、t)and Batangas(5 percent).Figure 1:Sugarcane Area Precipitation Departure(CHIRPS),October 1 to March 31 Source:GADAS Post maintains MY 2025 raw sugar production at 1.85 million MT higher than 1.78 million MT forecast production of the Sugar Regulatory Administration(SRA)released in Sugar Order No.1(