Quality-testing machines introduced to boost sugarcane production

Sugar factories in Western Kenya have begun testing new machines that will see farmers paid on the quality of cane delivered to millers. The current system pays growers on the basis of the weight of cane delivered.

Sugar Directorate officials and farmers’ representative toured Sony and Nzoia sugar companies, which have been identified as the pilot testing centres, to establish the viability of the new sucrose-testing units, which cost Sh1.6 billion.