Agriculture CS Peter MunyaAgriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has announced new prices for sugarcane, Sh4,040 per tonne. The announcement comes after the interim sugarcane pricing committee reviewed the prices that had stagnated at Sh3,700 since 2018, to Sh4,040 per tonne, effective April 1, 2020. The CS said the country will bridge the deficit by importing the sweetener from the Comesa region. COMESA countries supplied 343,087 tones which is 78 per cent of the total imports in this period. All brown sugar originated from the COMESA region while the rest was imported from the rest of the world.

Source: Standard Digital March 31, 2021 07:11 UTC