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NAIROBI: It is inconceivable that three sugar millers, Mumias Sugar Company, West Kenya Sugar Company and Sony Sugar Company should close down their factories at the same time for maintenance purposes when available stocks of sugar in the country amount to only about 6,000 tonnes as claimed by Agriculture Cabinet Felix Koskei.
That this was allowed to happen when there is no shortage of cane to mill in order to reduce any sugar shortages the country could be facing, denotes the failure by the parent ministry to adequately monitor the situation. This lack of attention to detail is largely what is killing the sugar industry in the country.
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