Cane farmers face discrimination from policy makers

At the risk of seeming like I’m belabouring the point, allow me to stay on topic a while longer on the woes affecting the sugar sector in Kenya. While Kenya’s agricultural performance over the last decade has continued to flourish with tea, horticulture and coffee playing leading roles, the sugar industry has continued to stagnate.

It has been argued by some; including the chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Adan Nooru, that the main problem is the persistently high price of sugar produced locally vis-a-vis international production.