| Updated Wed, July 12th 2017 at 16:49 GMT +3The construction of the Sh15 billion Kenya Brewery Ltd Kisumu plant will take 18 months after President Uhuru Kenyatta presided over its ground breaking on Wednesday. Once complete, it will employ 1,500 people directly and up to 25, 000 sorghum and cassava farmers in the western Kenya region. Senator keg, its flagship beer will account for 25 per cent of its production, pushing the total production to nearly 1 million hectolitres (100 million litres) per year. The brewery is therefore expected to lift the demand for sorghum, which will in turn support small-scale farmers in the region. The additional earnings for farmers is expected to rise from Sh2.2 billion per year currently to Sh6 billion in 10 years.

Source: Standard Digital July 12, 2017 13:41 UTC