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Cut off cartels to save sugar industry

In July this year, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya banned brown sugar imports as part of measures to protect the local industry and curb cheap illegal sugar imports.

However, the ban seems to have opened the floodgates for illegal importation of the sweetener and the government appears to be helpless.

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