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By Beatrice Awuor Introduction The Kenya Sugar industry has been working towards increasing sugarcane production to fulfill the sugar consumpti...

By Francis Songok In Kenya, sugar is more than just the white or brown crystalline substance we stir into our favourite tea. For more than 300,000 smallholder farmers, it...

By Etherly Barasa Introduction Kenya’s sugar industry has for decades played a vital role in the country’s economy, supporting over...

Authored by Korir Geoffrey Seed cane forms the biological foundation upon which sugarcane productivity and factory recovery depend. In Kenya, however, systemic weaknesses...

By Beatrice Awuor The Kenya sugar industry is transitioning to the Quality Based Cane Payment System (QBCPS). This transition is intended to create a fairer, more transpa...

By Francis Songok The journey of cane from the field to the mill in Kenya should be as straightforward as the classic school math problem: A tractor travels at X km/h...

By Francis Songok Introduction The Kenya sugar industry is one of the pillars of the nation's agricultural economy, supporting over six mil...

By Abdulrahman Otenyo The sugar industry, one of the world’s largest agricultural sectors, plays a critical role in rural economies, food production, and bioenergy....

By Okoti Gilbert The sugarcane supply chain is a comprehensive system encompassing the growing, harvesting, transporting, and processing of sugarcane from the field to th...

By Beatrice Awuor Understanding sugar specifications and investing in quality control and quality assurance is not just about meeting regulatory requirements; it is cruci...

By Sheela Tumaini The sugar industry relies on collaborative efforts among farmers, sugar factories or mills, farmer associations, unions, and cooperatives, which, togeth...

By Sheela Tumaini, Kenya Sugar Board Bagasse is the fibrous by-product left after sugarcane processing at the sugar factories, typically accounting for about 30% of the s...

By Okoti Gilbert, Kenya Sugar Board The ultimate objective of the Kenya National Climate Change Council is to stabilize industrial pollution concentrations in the atmosph...

By Beatrice Awuor, Kenya Sugar Board The Kenya sugar industry has the potential to produce over 1.45 million metric tonnes of sugar at full capacity, which would meet dom...

By Okoti Gilbert, Kenya Sugar Board The manner in which the sugar industry value chain operates—particularly cane supply—is heavily influenced by the social, ...