Tag Archives: Sugar cane

Masindi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Masindi District Council has approved the relocation of roadside sugarcane weighbridges from farming areas to designated locations along major highways, a move local leaders say is aimed at curbing cane theft and eliminating middlemen in the sugar supply chain. The resolution was passed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government and sugar industry stakeholders have agreed on new rules to regulate sugarcane weighbridges, limiting them strictly to weighing functions and banning all trading activities, following complaints that the facilities were enabling cane theft. The resolutions were reached at a stakeholders’ meeting held Tuesday …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  In a decisive move to stabilize a key agricultural industry, the Ugandan government has brokered a binding agreement setting a minimum price of Shs125,000 per ton of sugarcane for the Busoga region. The intervention, finalized in a high-stakes Kampala meeting on Dec. 19, directly …

  Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The government has intervened in Busoga’s sugarcane sector, setting a minimum price of Shs125,000 per ton of sugarcane following complaints from out-growers over low prices. The decision was reached at a meeting held on Friday, December 19, 2025, in Kampala between officials from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Findings of a study released by the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) show that there is almost the same level of food insecurity in households that are engaged in sugarcane farming and those that are not. Dr. Madina Guloba, a Senior Research Fellow at …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The mutilated and beheaded body of a prominent businessman in Jinja City has been found in a sugar plantation, with all indications that he was subjected to ritual sacrifice. Now Police in Busoga East are investigating circumstances under which the  53-year-old George Waidha, a …

The export is limited to the initial three months Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Sugar cane farmers in Busoga sub-region have received a limited reprieve to export their excess cane to the neighbouring Kenya, even as questions on how much impact it will cause to the local sugar millers …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is opposed to the proposal to export unprocessed raw materials such as sugar cane. The Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Minister Amelia Kyambadde stated this while presenting a statement to parliament on the issue of excess sugar cane in Busoga sub-region. Kyambadde told …

Farmers petition Speaker on sugar cane zoning |THE INDEPENDENT | Sugar cane growers associations of Masindi, Mukono and Busoga have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga over sugar cane zoning to reject the idea terming it as an out-dated model that believes in wealth accumulation by rent-seeking behaviours i.e., …

La Baraque, Mauritius | AFP | Far out into the Indian Ocean where it is forced to be self-reliant, the island nation of Mauritius is weaning itself off fossil fuels by turning to its main cash-crop sugar cane, for electricity. The leftover, crushed sugar cane stalks and tips — dry …