Kenyan farmers threaten cane supply boycott over prices

Josiah Omwenga, a sugarcane farmer works at his 2.5 hectare sugarcane farm in Nyambaria Nyamira county. (Photo: Sammy Omingo/Standard)

The country could be headed for a major sugar crisis with cane farmers now threatening to boycott delivering the commodity to millers over poor pay.

The farmers are demanding a price increase per tonne of cane delivered to the milling factories from the current Sh3,800 to not less than Sh5,000.