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Sony Sugar cuts production by 40 percent due to cane poaching

South Nyanza Sugar Company Chairman Ambrose Weda. [Kepher Otieno]

MIGORI, KENYA: Sony Sugar Company management lost half a billion in the last financial year due to cane poaching which has cut back their daily production by 40 percent.

The management now fears that if the trend continues then its production capacity would be grossly affected and that could even force its operations to grind to a halt, if poaching is not contained.

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