Government promises to end sugar woes, rules out privatization of sugar factories

Chairman Board of AFA (right)CS Agriculture& Livestock Development Mithika Linturi, DG AFA Beatrice Nyamwamu, Deputy DG CROPS DR Felister Makini during a consultative meeting held with MPs from the sugar belt region on improving the competitiveness of the state-owned mills at KARLO headquarters Nairobi. May 4, 2023. [Silas Otieno, Standard]

The government has denounced any plans to privatize the sugar companies, despite the many challenges facing the sugar sub sector.

Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock, Mithika Linturi, said there are better ways to deal with the ailing sugar industry and return it to profitability, and that time has come.