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MP calls for regulation of sugar importation

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Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

Webuye East MP Martin Wanyonyi has asked the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi to gazette regulation on the importation of sugar to avert illegal entry of the commodity into the country.

Mr Wanyonyi said that without proper regulation, sugarcane farmers will continue to suffer from unnecessary imports when the millers were churning out millions of bags of sugar across the country.

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