President Yoweri\nMuseveni has today met and held a bilateral meeting with President Uhuru\nKenyatta of Kenya on the sidelines of TICAD 7 conference in Yokohama, Japan\nduring which the two leaders discussed the issue of sugar and sugarcane exports\nto Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a joint\npermanent commission meeting in Mombasa last March, it was agreed that Kenya’s\nimportation of sugar from Uganda would increase from 30,000 tons to 90,000 tons\nper annum but the process has delayed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports, the importation licenses are issued by Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture which delays to issue them. President Museveni said there is need to fasten the trade process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cUgandans have grown too much sugar cane, they want to export sugarcane to Kenya. We don’t allow export of unprocessed sugarcane but because of the quantity, they were saying that we suspend the ban of export of raw sugarcane and allow Kenyan factories which are willing, to buy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Kenyatta pledged to\nfollow up on the matter.
\nIf the deal is\nsettled, Uganda is set to become a dominant sugar exporter within the\nEast African Community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in January, Tanzania\ncleared importation of Ugandan sugar after a meeting between the countries\u2019\nministers of trade broke a trade deadlock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the meeting, the two\nleaders also discussed bilateral issues affecting their two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Kenyatta invited President Museveni for a meeting in Moroto where he will be for a working visit on Thursday 12th September 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the visit, Uganda will showcase what they have done in Moroto to fight drought and witness the signing of an MOU between the Turkana and Karamojong.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Yoweri Museveni has today met and held a bilateral meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on the sidelines of TICAD 7 conference in Yokohama, Japan during which the two leaders discussed the issue of sugar and sugarcane exports to Kenya. During a joint permanent commission meeting in Mombasa last March, it was agreed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n