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Team proposes radical measures to revive ailing sugar industry

Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri (right) addresses a press conference alongside Kakamega Governor Wickliffe Oparanya during the launch of sugar task force. [David Njaaga/Standard]

A team set up to revive the sugar industry wants millers barred from importing the commodity and a ban on cane poaching, as part of measures to revamp the ailing sector.

The proposals are contained in a report by the team co-chaired by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjri and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya.

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