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Linturi says new rules to end theft of cane at weighbridges

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Trucks loaded with sugarcane from Nyando sugar belt camping outside West Kenya's Miwani weighbridge in Kisumu county on September 3, 2021. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi has said that his ministry is in the process of drafting regulations to provide for the management of weighbridges to ensure fairness in sugarcane weighing.

Linturi who appeared before the Senate plenary to answer questions said that to reduce the cost of sugarcane transport for farmers, several sugar companies have set up cane-buying centres where cane is aggregated before being transported to the sugar mills.

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