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Sugarcane farmers stranded with harvest as factory grinds to a halt

Sugarcane trucks loaded with sugarcane from Nyando sugar belt camping outside West Kenya's Miwani weighbridge in Kisumu county on September 3, 2021. [Collins Oduor,Standard]

Machinery breakdown at Kibos Sugar Company has left hundreds of sugarcane farmers in Kericho County stranded with their harvest at a local weighbridge.

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