EDITORIAL: Sugar millers must embrace free market regime or perish

Bags of sugar are offloaded from a ship. file PHOTO | NMG

Kenya’s sugar millers need to quickly adjust to the realities of a free market economy if they are to survive competition in the coming years.

From 2019, the protectionist measures currently enjoyed under a deal with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) will most likely end and only the most efficient sugar producers will remain relevant in such a more competitive environment.

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