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Workers planting cane at Mumias sugar nuclear besides challenges facing Western sugar companies. [Photo: Benjamin Sakwa]
County governments should be allowed to take over the management of sugar factories to help revive the ailing industry, Governor Wycliffe Oparanya has suggested.
Speaking yesterday in his office, Mr Oparanya said counties in the sugar belt regions should be given the mandate to control the factories since 95 per cent of the agriculture sector is devolved.
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