Sukari Industries Ltd, linked to Kenyan tycoon Jaswant Rai, is seeking a nod to set up a new KES 5.132 billion factory in Trans Mara, Narok County.
The company has asked the National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) to approve its proposed sugar mill with a potential for producing 3,000 tonnes of cane per day (TCD) expandable to 6,000 TCD.
The Standard reports that the proposed project has already procured a 20.195-hectare parcel of land to construct the envisaged 3,000-TCD factory and at the same time the staff quarter for technical and managerial staff.
Sukari Industries Ltd currently runs a sugar milling plant in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County.
If approved, the new factory will see the wealthy Rai family who control a multi-billion sugar empire through their four giant millers of West Kenya, Olepito, Sukari and the newly opened Naitiri Sugar Company (Bungoma) cement their dominance of the country’s lucrative sugar market.
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