Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 16) — After facing a controversy regarding a sugar importation order last year, the new board members of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) said they have implemented changes to improve its workflow.
“The workload is very divided among the three of us and we work together as a team,” SRA board member Pablo Luiz Azcona, who represents the planters, told CNN Philippines’ The Source.
Aside from Azcona, the other members of the new board are Administrator David John Thaddeus Alba, and Mitzi Mangwag, who represents the millers.
They replaced Hermenegildo Serafica, Roland Beltran, and Aurelio Gerardo Valderrama Jr. who all left their posts following the controversial order to import 300,000 metric tons of sugar in August 2022.
Azcona noted that in the previous SRA administration, most of the workload was concentrated on the administrator.
He said the board members now head different committees, depending on the sector they represent. They include research and development, mill district development councils, and organizational block farms.
