Sugarcane farming in Kenya expected to be hit hard as COMESA safeguards lapse and table sugar drops to industrial raw material
Globally, sugar is no longer treated solely as a single consumer commodity. In competitive markets, sugarcane is increasingly viewed as an industrial raw material, with refined table sugar becoming a secondary product. Value is derived from integrated processing, including the production of ethanol from molasses, electricity generation from bagasse supplied to national grids, paper and board manufacturing, industrial alcohols, and other downstream products.
