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Zimbabwe has the most expensive sugar in Africa. Here is why.
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He was responding to a question on what the government was doing to protect the local sugar industry from cheap imports.
Makumire for asking a very important question about the Government’s plans to protect the local sugar industry from cheap imports.
It is a targeted intervention carefully calibrated to support our export sector without undermining the local sugar industry.
Secondly, we have a programme on anti-smuggling and this is the illicit influx of cheap sugar which we have strengthened through our anti-smuggling measures.
In the context of the sugar industry, it means we are encouraging local procurement of 8% of sugar as raw material.
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