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By Mutinda Mulei For decades, the backbone of Kenya’s sugar industry—over 500,000 smallholder farmers—has operated in both a literal and figurative blin...

There is a compelling need to incentivize, sensitize, promote and encourage voluntary land consolidation and cooperative farming models in Kenya’s sugar industry. Across the country, generati...

By Angela Mideva The sugar industry plays a significant role in global environmental changes, specifically through land-use changes that cause deforestation and agricultu...

By Sheela Tumaini The Sugar Industry is a vibrant economic venture in the country’s agricultural setup, it is especially more crucial in the Nyanza and Western regi...

By Abdulrahman Otenyo While agricultural growth depends on various factors ranging from rainfall, investments in irrigation, research and development, and market prices, ...

By Abdulrahman Otenyo Confronting Kenya’s Land Ownership Crisis across the Sugar Industry Land in Kenya’s sugar belt is more than a...

By Abdulrahman Otenyo Brazil teaches us a simple but profound lesson that in a modern sugarcane economy, sugar is not the main product but only one of many outputs. The r...

By Gilbert Okoti Jaggery processing is one of the largest agro-based cottage industries in Kenya. With rising demand for natural sweeteners, attention is increasingly shi...

By Geoffrey Korir The sustainability and productivity of the sugarcane industry rest heavily on the availability of high-quality, disease-free planting material. For many...

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...