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CS Agriculture Mithika Linturi (in glasses), accompanied by Agricultural Food Authority Cornelly Serem, inspects a dairy farming plant owned by Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi at Kapseret Constituency in Uasin Gishu County on March 8, 2024. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]
Kenya's demand for sugar stands at around 1 million metric tons while the country's production capacity is around 50 percent of the local demand.
This leaves the country with a deficit of close to half a million metric tons which must be imported from mostly countries that are members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) as well as South American producers. Brazil which tops the world in producing sugar leads Latin America as Kenya's next stop after Comesa.
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