Cane farmers turn to other crops as industry woes drive them to the brink

Some of the tractors at Butali Sugar Company ferrying sugarcane to the miller for crushing. Experts have advised sugar millers in Kenya to employ alternative means of generating revenue. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

The sugar industry is hurtling towards renewed uncertainty.

With a widening sugar deficit met by an influx of cheap imports even as local millers sink into huge debts, the more 600,000 farmers and 80,000 workers are contemplating a future without the industrial crop.