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A tractor loaded with sugarcane it was ferrying to Sukari Sugar Industries in Homa Bay County. [Sammy Omingo/Standard]
A farmers’ lobby has asked Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya to revoke all sugar import licences and issue them a fresh after strict vetting.
This, it said, will curb unscrupulous trade deals. The farmers also want millers allowed to import sugar based on deficits in their respective factories and not individual businessmen.
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