Workers packaging sugar at Butali Sugar Mills in Kakamega. Sugar supplies are projected to tighten in the short term amid a drop in output by local millers.
Sugar supplies are projected to tighten in the short term amid a drop in output by local millers, a void likely to be filled through imports.
Data by the Sugar directorate showed that the total sugarcane milled by all factories in the country dropped to 716,274 tonnes in February, down from 908,537 tonnes the previous months—reflecting a shortage of the raw material amid a biting drought.
