The plight of sugarcane farmers in Kenya

Obsolete machines, large debts, cane poaching, disillusioned farmers, unscrupulous transporters and moribund regulations define what is today the sugar industry in the country’s nyanza region…in our second part of The Sugarcane, ouko okusah takes an in depth look at the woes of sugar cane farmers and public millers in the Nyando sugar belt where a raging debate on zoning has split stakeholders right in the middle.

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