What are the problems experienced by the sugar-cane growers in the Lake Victoria basin of Kenya?

      

List the problems experienced by the sugar-cane growers in the Lake Victoria basin of Kenya.

  

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Maurice
(i) Over production thereby reducing the profit margins.

(ii) Pest-white scales/white grubs/termites hence reducing the yields.

(iii) Competition for land from other crops thereby minimizing the acreage under sugarcane.

(iv) Burning of cane by arsonists/fire outbreak thus reducing yields.

(v) Delays in harvesting of sugar cane thus sugar quality.

(vi) Flooding of the local market with cheap imported sugar hence small profit margins

(vii) Delayed payment to farmers thus demoralising them.

(viii) Poor management of sugar cane factories/co-operatives.

(ix) High cost of farming inputs thereby reducing the acreage under sugar cane.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 13, 2017 at 05:15


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