KENYA – Kenya recorded 67% growth in sugar imports in January compared to the corresponding period in 2018 as local sugar production continue to plunge, reports Business Daily. According to Data from the Sugar Directorate, the country imported 36,674 tonnes of sugar in the month compared to 21,982 tonnes shipped into the country last year.…
KENYA – Kenyan sugar company, Nzoia Sugar Company, is set to pay sugar cane growers US$5.1 million for the produce delivered to the miller during the 2017/2018 financial year, reports Business daily. The company’s board chairman, Joash Wamang’oli made the announcement following the government’s decision to provide US$26.9 million aimed at revitalising the sugar industry.…
KENYA – Stakeholders and Sugarcane farmers from sugar belt region have opposed the Kenyan government’s proposal to merge three ailing sugar millers Chemelil, Muhoroni and Miwani as a government’s intervention to revive the under-performing sugar sector reports Kenya Digest. They have expressed their dissatisfaction on the decision urging that the merger would not improve the…
TANZANIA – Kilombore sugar company (KSC), a sugar manufacturing company in Tanzania, has unveiled plans to expand its production capacity as in a bid to address the national sugar gap, reports Daily News. According to a feasibility study conducted on the company’s expansion plan, the ambitious sugar factory could scale up its annual production from…
TANZANIA – The Government has called on local and foreign investors to invest in sugar production in Tanzania as it seeks to meet its demand of for local consumption and industrial use required to generate foreign exchange, reports Daily News. The Deputy Minister for Agriculture Omar Mgumba said that the country has adequate resources required…
TANZANIA – Tanzania has embarked on issuing permits to traders allowing importation of sugar from Uganda as the country still struggles to meet its 290,000-tonne sugar shortage, reports the East African. The government had stopped issuing new permits for importation of the commodity to protect producers and traders. This had seen sugar imports from its…
INDIA – The Indian government has approved a proposal making jute packaging mandatory for all food grains, a move that aims to enhance quality and productivity of both the grains and jute bags, reports Times of India. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved that 100 % of the food grains and 20% of…
KENYA – Kenya’s sugar imports have clicked 189,000 tonnes in the nine months to September, a significant reduction from the 933,000 tonnes of sugar it imported last year. A report by the East African revealed that out of the total imported sugar, that from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and East…
KENYA - Farmers and millers mainly from the Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) have agreed on key proposals in the sugar regulations in a bid to adopt a new policy that would revive the long-ailing sugar sector. According to the Nation, the stakeholders led by LREB Chairman Wycliffe Oparanya and Kisumu’s Anyang’ Nyong’o agreed on…
ETHIOPIA - Ethiopian Sugar Corporation is set to inaugurate Omo Kuraz Sugar Factory Three on October 14, built with US$286.12 million loan from China Development Bank. According to the state corporation, the new factory will have the capacity of upto a thousand tonnes of sugar per day, producing three types of sugar with modern technology…
