Mr. President
I have been watching the agricultural space and noticed that maize; coffee tea pyrethrum and now wheat have their farmer prices inceased. Now can they tell me what will be done to the sugar industry because we also use the same farm inputs as everyone else. What are our Mps doing to have the government increase what the factories are supposed to pay us farmers? Ruto once directed them to pay 2500 but this has not been effected
Kamire – Kigali
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:25:35 +0200 [01/29/2009 10:25:35 AM CST]
From: Thomas Kamire
Subject: Sugar industry
I think this is the wrong way to go about things. Corporations are in the business of making money as efficiently as possible. With competition from imported sugar and other companies, the sugar factories cannot afford to increase the price of sugar (which is already high). They therefore have to pay market rates for the sugar cane/inputs. The government should not in anyway be engaged in setting the price of primary inputs.