{"id":13986,"date":"2020-09-06T20:08:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2020-09-06T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:08:40","slug":"sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia","title":{"rendered":"Sugar regulator, police urged to address cane poaching in Busia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Ignatius Odanga\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Kenya Sugar Board and law enforcement agencies in Busia County have been urged to intervene over cane poaching in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The call comes hot on the heels of an incident where West Kenya\u2019s Olepito and Busia Sugar Industry clashed over raw material at Alomodoi in Teso South over the weekend.\u00a0The tractors of the two factories arrived at the same time to collect the cane that had been harvested.\u00a0Drama ensued when Olepito\u2019s head of agriculture Titus Ondigo arrived at the farm armed with contract agreement signed between farmers and the factory.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ondigo ordered one of the Busia Sugar Industry supervisors who was overseeing the loading of the cane to stop arguing that the cane belonged to their contracted farmers.\u00a0Busia Sugar officials left the field in huff but tractors that had already been loaded with the sugarcane remained behind.<\/p>\n<p>Olepito is situated in Teso South while Busia Sugar is based in Busibwabo, Matayos Constituency. The two sugar mills are at least 10 kilometers apart.\u00a0It was not the first time the two factories were clashing over cane.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Mr Ondigo, there is need for the sugar directorate and Busia County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri who is also the chairman of the County Security Committee to intervene on the issue of cane poaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya Sugar Board and County Commissioner should come in before the situation runs out of hand,\u201d said Mr Ondigo.\u00a0\u201cWe cannot have a situation where one of the players does cane development while the other one come to confuse the farmer and buy the cane we invested in heavily by providing fertilizer and seed canes,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>One of the owners of the cane Yerusa Okiru admitted that her husband Philip Okiru signed an agreement with West Kenya but later dropped cane farming.\u00a0Ms Yerusa then started planting cane as private farmer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no any agreement with West Kenya so they should allow me to sell the cane to a factory of my choice,\u201d she said. Efforts to reach the management of Busia Sugar Industry (BSI) was futile.\u00a0BSI has been experiencing shortage of cane after Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture Peter Munya imposed a ban on cane importation from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The factory relied on cane from abroad to cushion shortage of the raw material.\u00a0Earlier the Spokesperson of the factory Stephene Mulla said most of the cane they developed were destroyed by the excessive rainfall the region experienced last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Ignatius Odanga\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Kenya Sugar Board and law enforcement agencies in Busia County have been urged to intervene over cane poaching in the region. The call comes hot on the heels of an incident where West Kenya\u2019s Olepito and Busia Sugar Industry clashed over raw material at Alomodoi in Teso South over the weekend.\u00a0The tractors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[475,5560,739],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-busia-county","tag-busia-sugar-industry","tag-kenya-sugar-board"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sugar regulator, police urged to address cane poaching in Busia - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenya Sugar Board and law enforcement agencies in Busia County have been urged to intervene over cane poaching in the region.The call comes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sugar regulator, police urged to address cane poaching in Busia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenya Sugar Board and law enforcement agencies in Busia County have been urged to intervene over cane poaching in the region.The call comes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-06T20:08:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/sugar_regulator_pol5f54c99f35e80.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"488\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sugar regulator, police urged to address cane poaching in Busia\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-06T20:08:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\"},\"wordCount\":421,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/sugar_regulator_pol5f54c99f35e80.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Busia County\",\"Busia Sugar Industry\",\"Kenya Sugar Board\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/sugar-regulator-police-urged-to-address-cane-poaching-in-busia\",\"name\":\"Sugar regulator, police urged to address cane poaching in Busia - 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