The management of West Kenya’s Olepito Sugar Factory has denied claims of importing sugarcane from Uganda. Deficit The same statistics show that in the 2020-21 financial year, a deficit of 3.2 million tonnes will be recorded since only 6.8 million tonnes will be available against a demand of 9.9 million tonnes. Other factories sampled are Chemelil, Muhoroni, Mumias, Nzoia, South Nyanza, Kibos, Soin, Butali, Miwani, Sukari, Transmara, Kwale and Busia Sugar. It is followed by Nzoia Sugar with 38,230 hectares. Mumias has only 15,000, Chemelil 34,000, Butali (30,000) and Busia Sugar (31,000).

Source: Standard Digital July 04, 2020 08:15 UTC