State sets aside $ 10.6 million to settle sugar industry workers’ salaries, it introduces 27 new cane varieties
Speaking at Chemelil Sugar Company in Kisumu, Mr Ronoh said the arrears had been fully audited and provided for in the national budget, paving the way for payment to employees who were originally hired by the government before the mills were handed over to private investors.
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.
Tooth decay: How sugar industry falsifies science to sell fluoride that ingests teeth
Internal sugar industry and dental organisation documents, analysed by the study’s author Christopher Neurath, detail how the sugar industry helped shape the public health policies that, for decades, touted fluoride as a “magic bullet” against tooth decay.
