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Should Western Kenya residents abandon sugarcane farming?

Stephen Matheka, a businessman in Kakamega.

 

It is time for cane farmers to go for alternative crops to enhance food security and income. Cane farming has proved to be a loss to farmers in the region as most of them are facing financial constraints.

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