Researchers push for more acreage under sugar beet

A sugar beat harvested from a farm at Gatimu village, in Nyandarua County.

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Researchers are pushing for the increased production of sugar beet, a type of root vegetable, to supplement the high demand for sugar and sweeteners in Kenya.

In Kenya, demand for sugar surpasses supply, forcing the country to import yet the researchers say sweeteners can be extracted from sugar beets, similar to countries such as the UK, where sugar from beets amounts to more than half of the sugar consumed in the the country.

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