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Politics of sugar: Huge debts, lack of cane kill once thriving sector

Former Awendo MP Jared Kopiyo (left) and Kenya Sugarcane Farmers Union Secretary General Ezra Olodi lead farmers to protest over cane arrears by Sony Sugar Company in Awendo town. [File, Standard]

At least six sugar companies are dying a slow and painful death chocked by Sh60 billion debt.

The disappearance of sugarcane, their main raw material, has made resuscitation efforts by receiver managers fail to roar them back to life.

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