The recent establishment of the Kenya Sugar Board provides an effective policy and regulatory platform for reviving an economic sector capable of significant contribution to Kenya’s gross domestic product. Such focus was not possible under the Agriculture and Food Authority.
Like most other economic sectors, most of the sugar industry infrastructure had been set up in the 1960s and 70s but weakened in the 1990s due to poor sector resource management and inappropriate authorisation of sugar imports that competed with local production.
