Imported sugar is offloaded at the port of Mombasa. Comesa has given
Kenya a one-year extension on sugar safeguards from the regional states,
limiting the entry of sweetener into the country. PHOTO | FILE
By SCOLA KAMAU, TEA Special Correspondent
Kenya’s safeguard against sugar inflows from regional states
has been extended by one year, but the pace at which set reform
conditions for the ailing sector are being implemented is worrying.
The one-year extension, that will now expire in February 2017
from a February 2016 deadline, limits sugar imports from the Common
Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) countries, offering
relief to local millers that fear competition from cheap producers.
“This is a big win for Kenya but also a call for fast-tracking
of the reforms in our sugar sector,” Adan Mohamed, the acting
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary said in Lusaka, Zambia.
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