1. With agricultural security increasing dramatically in the 1990s even as industrial security deteriorated, could these developments now lead agriculture into the same pitfall that Philippine industry had previously experienced? 2. In the specific case of sugar and sugar milling, which is now the most highly protected agricultural sub-sector, does this not only spell out the industry 's final demise as a major export sector , especially with the loss of the US sugar quota system in 2004 and the eventual need to contend completely with global competition in this commodity