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New sugarcane prices fail to excite farmers

Cane cutters harvest sugar cane in Kakamega county on July 12, 2021. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Sugar milling firms have raised the price of sugarcane from Sh4,480 per tonne to Sh4,563 per tonne, effective April 29.

While some of the farmers interviewed in Busia, Kakamega, Bungoma and parts of Nyanza welcomed the move, saying the new price will encourage increased production of the crop, they faulted the Sh83 increment as minimal.

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