Tourism and Industry - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Sugar manufacturers want tough laws for competitors in unrecommended areas https://www.weinformers.com/2017/08/08/sugar-manufacturers-want-tough-laws-for-competitors-in-unrecommended-areas/ https://www.weinformers.com/2017/08/08/sugar-manufacturers-want-tough-laws-for-competitors-in-unrecommended-areas/#respond Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:59:03 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=49394 Sugar companies under the their umbrella group the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) have petitioned Parliament put stringent measures on the sugar bill with a tough clause barring sugar factories away from unrecomended areas. The sugar companies members were appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry chaired by the MP for Fort […]

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MP for Fort portal Municipality, Alex Ruhunda

Sugar companies under the their umbrella group the Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) have petitioned Parliament put stringent measures on the sugar bill with a tough clause barring sugar factories away from unrecomended areas.

The sugar companies members were appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry chaired by the MP for Fort portal Municipality, Alex Ruhunda, to give their position on the sugar bill which is under scrutiny.

Commenting on Section 13 (2) of the sugar bill the chairman of the USMA who is also the Director Madhvani Group, Jim Mwine Kabeho, proposed that if a sugar company establishes a sugar milling factory in a wrong place, they should be charged a penalty fee of 500 million shillings instead of 10 million shillings as proposed in the bill.

The bill seeks to license only one sugar milling factory in a zone of 25km radius and a minimum distance between any two sugar mills to be 50 km

Mwine said that due limited sugar cane supply, companies are facing, there are no more hopes for export of sugar yet sugar industries had doubled, adding that cane realization from 1 acre where 35 tones expected has reduced to 20 tones justifying the sugar shortage.

He noted sugar Cane age harvest used to be at 18 months but now has gone to 12 months which gives out low sugar production for the market because of harvesting under age sugar cane.

A man scoops sugar into a cup to make tea.

Mwine said that Uganda sugar price is the highest in the world because the cane price from the sugar farmers has gone to the alarming cost forcing sugar price going up.

He noted that a cane price is now at 175 shillings because of its shortage at the farmers gardens.

Mwine also revealed that sugar cane farmers lose an average of 4 tons of sugar per hectare per month because of harvesting the underage cane.

 

 

 

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MPs ask government to look for alternative markets away from South Sudan https://www.weinformers.com/2016/09/09/mps-ask-government-to-look-for-alternative-markets-away-from-south-sudan/ https://www.weinformers.com/2016/09/09/mps-ask-government-to-look-for-alternative-markets-away-from-south-sudan/#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:24:36 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=46913 Members of Parliament have asked government to  consolidate its  expansion of markets into countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a way of increasing the country’s declining exports due to the on-going war in South Sudan where most traders would send their goods. The executive director of Uganda export promotion Board, Elly Twineyo […]

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Members of Parliament have asked government to  consolidate its  expansion of markets into countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a way of increasing the country’s declining exports due to the on-going war in South Sudan where most traders would send their goods.

executive director of Uganda export promotion Board, Elly Twineyo Kamugisha.

executive director of Uganda export promotion Board, Elly Twineyo Kamugisha.

The executive director of Uganda export promotion Board, Elly Twineyo Kamugisha says that the country has been earning over 3 billion shillings per day from the South Sudan market but ever since the war broke out, the country’s exports have greatly declined.

Kamugisha however says that the country is making a lot of money from DRC, Kenya and Rwanda and if it can expand on this market, it will be able to earn beyond expectations of the South Sudan market.

He also wants government to set up an auction center in Kampala for the country’s tea as a way to increase on the money earned from the crop noting that moment, the crop is sold through Mombasa where it is undervalued because of its low quality, adding that if this were true, many of the buyers would not return to the country to seek a certificate of origin.

Kamugishas who was appearing before MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry had been asked legislators why the government had not considering other options of expanding markets away from troubled South Sudan.
The Committee Chaired by the Mawokota South MP, John Bosco Lubyayi noted that the country has been earning over 3 billion shillings a day from the South Sudan market but ever since the war broke out, its exports have been declining.

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