[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A new private sugar firm in Kenya is pioneering irrigation farming and mechanization to turn a profit.
Kwale International Sugar Company Ltd (Kiscol) started operations six years ago, copying the successes of the countries exporting sugar to the region by adopting plantation and irrigation farming and mechanisation.
Last year, the firm’s sugar yield was 74.86 per cent, crushing more than 290,000 tones of cane to produce 28,000 tonnes of sugar. This amounted to 14 per cent of the sugar produced in the country by its 12 factories, latest data from the Sugar Directorate shows.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
