Sugar millers now determining prices as farmers suffer
The Economic Policy Research Centre has in its latest findings warned that if the government does not quickly set up a regulatory body to preside over activities of the sugarcane sub-sector, the governance of out-growers affairs is at risk and grower agreements are being broken. In a paper discussed yesterday at MUK, the research body also cautions policymakers that under such circumstances, the survival of the out-grower schemes is under threat, and makes food insecurity status even worse.
