Uganda’s Kakira Sugar

The private sector and business community have tasked  the East African legislative Assembly  to engage the two heads of state from Kenya and Uganda to resolve on the issue of exporting Ugandan sugar to Kenya. The private sector and business community represented by the members of the Uganda Manufacturer Association, Uganda Bureau of standards and Uganda Revenue Authority in a meeting with East African Legislative Assembly representatives at parliament said that they have pressed Kenya to allow Uganda sugar to enter Kenya market but the Kenyan authorities refused.
The Business community say that though they went ahead to allow Kenya to verify the Ugandan sugar industries  and all the sugar production system, they are not satisfied saying that Uganda sugar could not be imported doubting Uganda capacity to produce much sugar.
The policy Analyst officer with the Uganda Manufacturers Association Godfrey SSali said that Uganda being a sugar surplus  economy, other East African countries should have imported sugar from Uganda and Uganda imports goods which it does not  have from the same East African countries to further the East African economic integration. The Ugandan representative at the East African Legislative Assembly Margaret Ziwa said the matter regarding Uganda sugar being refused at Kenyan market will be reported officially to Kenyan authorizes and seek a solution over it .
Reports show that the country exported 40,188 tonnes of sugar to Kenya last year while its recorded surplus was 26,034 and this was attributed to poor yields in the Kenya sugar producing factories and out growers.