Standoff as cane farmers decline to repay Sh3.7bn State loans

A tractor ferrying sugarcane from sugarcane plantations. 

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The government is on the verge of losing Sh3.7 billion as sugarcane farmers refuse to repay loans issued to them, while local politicians ran a campaign that the loans were written off, the Auditor-General has warned.

Through the Commodities Fund- which is mandated with providing affordable loans to farmers for improvement, farm inputs, and operations- the government issued loans to growers through two co-operatives and a sugar miller.

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