RVHH Tell Your Cousin Ruto to Transform the Sugar Sector

[kneegrow04]

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I personally liked the reforms he did as minister for agriculture under Nara. My dad passed on singing songs of praise about his reforms. As a son of a sugarcane farmer, I propose the following:

1. Farmers should be paid Fortnightly. I cant see why transporters are paid in under two weeks yet farmers have to wait for at least a month.

2.They should review tonage fee payable to the farmer. This should cut across all factories. IF it is 3500; every miller should be paying that given the cost of inputs is nearly equal countrywide.

3. Cess should be strictly deployed to improve the conditions of the roads.

4. Abolish KES 500 per ton fee imposed on farms burnt accidentally. Factories could be sending arsonists to do the dirty work on their behalf so as to sack the farmer dry. They should instead consider real solutions like insurance.

5.Give cane farmers subsidized fertilizers just like maize farmers etc.

6. Cane farmers deserve bonuses. its long overdue. Remember from cane we get by products like molasses, bargasse, etc yet the farmer is paid zilch.

7.Have weighbridges and collection points in far-flang areas to cushion the farmer against pillages occasioned by long distance transportation of cane from the farm to the factory. Famers lose a lot of tons along the way.

8. Put in place a WEIGH BRIDGE EQUALISATION TEAM. Ideally if a pickup weighs 2 tons at Chemelil factory. It should weigh the same at Kibos Sugar Factory. This is not the case currently. Private millers like Kibos are not being honest with farmers at the weighbridge. You can call it say (SWEET-TEAM) i.e. Sugar Weighbridge  Equalization and Equation Team). This will play the equivalent role of say, CUE in the education sector.

9. Do away with zoning. Let the farmer take his cane wherever he deems fit.

10. Unionize all sugar factory employees especially those in the private sector. Its hell being an employee of a sugar factory. The conditions are deplorable. All employees should have some sort of insurance cover like WIBA.

11. More money is needed for research & development into early maturing cane with good quantity of sucrose.

12. ETC




 

[RV Heavy Hitter!]

Ruto is not my cousin

[kwesta]

Toreet. Message home.

[kneegrow04]

Precisely. I have hammered the message home. He has your ears if your posts here is anything to by. Campaign posturing is OVER. Let the hard work begin.

Toreet. Message home.

[sitting bull]

Precisely. I have hammered the message home. He has your ears if your posts here is anything to by. Campaign posturing is OVER. Let the hard work begin.

Toreet. Message home.

I couldn't agree more. As things are currently, sugarcane farming is a quick road to poverty.

If you come from muhoroni sugarbelt, a very big sugar processing factory is coming up on the border between kericho and kisumu just behind the proposed soin dam. I hear it belongs to some big fish! Hope it does better than the rest!

[RV Pundit]

Obado should be appointed as CAS for sugar sector.Obado has the experience to fix it

[gout]

We cannot keep throwing good money after bad money. We have to do what we got competitive advantage with.

If maize and sugar is not making economic sense without billions in taxes being thrown, we have to do what is making economic sense.