Farmers disagree with Museveni on growing sugarcane

Sugarcane outgrowers have criticised President Museveni’s position that millers should grow their own cane, saying if implemented, it will drive them out of business.

During celebrations to mark 100 years of Sugar Corporation Uganda Limited (Scoul) in Lugazi, Buikwe District, last Saturday, the President encouraged investors to be strategic by growing their sugarcane on a large scale and stopping over-reliance on outgrowers.

“…engaging these smallholders in sugarcane growing is diverting them from solving their problems; the only people who can make money from sugarcane are…