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A stalled tractor loaded with sugarcane it was ferrying Sukari Sugar Industries in Homa Bay County along Rodi Kopany-Ndhiwa road on 10/3/2019. Farmers complain about delays in harvesting their cane. [Sammy Omingo/Standard]
Kenya’s sugar industry has many natural advantages most of which have been undermined by policy and mismanagement that has seen its productivity slump. As a result, when import protection ends, probably next year, the industry will be immediately undercut by far cheaper imported sugar.
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