Higher production fails to tame high sugar prices

Sugar at a Nyeri supermarket. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

The retail price of sugar remains high despite an increase in local production of the commodity and continued imports to cover the domestic deficit.

Sugar prices on the shelves are retailing at between Sh250 and Sh260 for a two kilogramme packet depending on the brand, which is higher than the Sh230 that the same quantity fetched in December.

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