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Millers, farmers locked in sugarcane prices standoff

Sugarcane

A farmer topdressing Urea and DAP fertiliser on sugarcane at Muliru area Ikolomani in Kakamega County on October 2, 2022.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

Consumers face higher sugar prices as farmers and millers wait to see who will blink first in a dispute over the price of sugarcane.

Millers are threatening to shut their plants from today after a court thwarted a government's decision to cut cane prices to Sh5,100 per tonne.