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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on September 01, 2015, 09:20:07 AM
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Mauritus company just bought a stake.....Transmara has enough land to make kenya self-sufficient in very short time.
Sucriere Des Mascareignes Ltd has already outlined a three-year plan to expand Transmara Sugar’s cane-crushing capacity to 1 million tonnes, up from the current 400,000 tonnes.
The expansion will make Transmara the second largest miller after Mumias, which has a potential of crushing two million tonnes.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Mauritian-firm-buys-Transmara-Sugar/-/539546/2853420/-/sf05ck/-/index.html
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Do you know what kind of sugar cane species is in Kenya? Is it the juicing kind? Red? Yellow ?
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Mauritus company just bought a stake.....Transmara has enough land to make kenya self-sufficient in very short time.
Sucriere Des Mascareignes Ltd has already outlined a three-year plan to expand Transmara Sugar’s cane-crushing capacity to 1 million tonnes, up from the current 400,000 tonnes.
The expansion will make Transmara the second largest miller after Mumias, which has a potential of crushing two million tonnes.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Mauritian-firm-buys-Transmara-Sugar/-/539546/2853420/-/sf05ck/-/index.html
Mauritian firms are reputed to produce cheap sugar helped by modern equipment and factory efficiency.
Raila was right.
In a dramatic escalation of the political fallout over trade agreements with Uganda, President Kenyatta faced Mr Odinga at a Pan-African meeting in Nairobi and said: “Bwana Raila Odinga, let us work together. If you want to accuse me, do it and do so without taking me back. When you say that I went to talk about bringing cheap sugar into Kenya, which cheap sugar are you talking about?
http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-Kenyatta-Raila-Odinga-Sugar-Imports-Uganda/-/1950946/2830212/-/format/xhtml/-/a0djwm/-/index.html
Uhuru's a liar. Uhuru purposefully killed the sugar industry. Such a cheap shot by Uhuru to kill off the sugar industry just because it's Raila's enterprise and has the potential to be used as biofuels in place of oil.
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I hope the new owners will do a better job. The current Indians owners are swindling people of their hard earned cash through various schemes. In fact a lot of people, including my family members, are threatening to uproot the cane if things remain the same. Sugarcane farming for the most part to me brings more poverty for small scale farmers than the wealth it promises.
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I think studies have shown if you have less tha 4 acres to dedicate to sugar cane farming..you should never attempt it. Sugarcane farming is more like renting out your land. What small scale farmers need are ventures that are really labour intensive..like dairy farming, tea farming, anything that keep them occupied and paid through out the year. One sugar can is planted and weeded maybe twice...you sit idle for 2yrs waiting for the harvests. And then like it really deplete nutrients from soils....so pretty much that land become useles.
I hope the new owners will do a better job. The current Indians owners are swindling people of their hard earned cash through various schemes. In fact a lot of people, including my family members, are threatening to uproot the cane if things remain the same. Sugarcane farming for the most part to me brings more poverty for small scale farmers than the wealth it promises.