Kakira in record sugar output
May 04, 2003
KAKIRA Sugar Works (KSW) in Jinja overshot its sugar production targets for financial year 2002/03
By Jonathan Angura in Jinja
KAKIRA Sugar Works (KSW) in Jinja overshot its sugar production targets for financial year 2002/03.
“We had a record 905,835 tonnes of sugarcane milled this financial year leading to a record production of 84,695 tonnes of sugar. These results exceed the previous records made prior to 1972,†Richard Orr, the general manager said over the weekend.
Former Uganda president Idi Amin fully nationalised private enterprises after expelling most Asians in 1972. The Madhvani family repossessed the huge complex in 1985.
Orr said the sugarcane out-growers contributed 48% of the crushed cane.
Cane out-growers also earned a total of sh12b from supplying the Madhvani- owned sugar complex. The firm’s financial year ended on April 30, 2003.
“This has also been a record for the out- growers’ cane supplies which rose to 437,000 tonnes from 385,000 tonnes supplied last year. The value of cane supplied by out-growers was sh12b which benefited the rural community,†Orr said.
The out-growers, who are scattered around the sugar complex within a radius of 25 kilometres, are paid about sh27,000 per tonne of sugarcane supplied to the firm.
Orr attributed their record production figures to teamwork and cooperation by all the stakeholders in the industry.
Meanwhile Orr disclosed that the factory closed down last week for six weeks to carry out annual maintenance works. It will re-open on June 16.
He said there was 5000 tonnes of sugar in stock to be sold during the shut-down. He said one million tonnes of sugarcane, and 50% of it from out-growers, will be milled next financial year.
KAKIRA Sugar Works (KSW) in Jinja overshot its sugar production targets for financial year 2002/03.
“We had a record 905,835 tonnes of sugarcane milled this financial year leading to a record production of 84,695 tonnes of sugar. These results exceed the previous records made prior to 1972,†Richard Orr, the general manager said over the weekend.
Former Uganda president Idi Amin fully nationalised private enterprises after expelling most Asians in 1972. The Madhvani family repossessed the huge complex in 1985.
Orr said the sugarcane out-growers contributed 48% of the crushed cane.
Cane out-growers also earned a total of sh12b from supplying the Madhvani- owned sugar complex. The firm’s financial year ended on April 30, 2003.
“This has also been a record for the out- growers’ cane supplies which rose to 437,000 tonnes from 385,000 tonnes supplied last year. The value of cane supplied by out-growers was sh12b which benefited the rural community,†Orr said.
The out-growers, who are scattered around the sugar complex within a radius of 25 kilometres, are paid about sh27,000 per tonne of sugarcane supplied to the firm.
Orr attributed their record production figures to teamwork and cooperation by all the stakeholders in the industry.
Meanwhile Orr disclosed that the factory closed down last week for six weeks to carry out annual maintenance works. It will re-open on June 16.
He said there was 5000 tonnes of sugar in stock to be sold during the shut-down. He said one million tonnes of sugarcane, and 50% of it from out-growers, will be milled next financial year.