In Brazil, sugarcane is grown mostly to produce fuel otherwise known as gasohol. This reduces their dependancy on the Arab sheikhs oil. Sugar is like a by-product, so you can’t beat them. The area under sugarcane in Brazil is equivalent to 15% of Kenya’s landmass.
In short, I would never bother growing sugarcane if I can buy the Brazil stuff - but you can bring in the Brazil sugar and make industrial alcohol, confectionary industries etc and sell to the neighbouring countries. Actually alot of the illicit alcohol that is bottled in Kenya is coming from TZ. Laleni tu.
Forget about industrialization in Kenya. The money is in being a middleman aka hustler.
Even if this dead horse is revived, so what? It cannot compete regionally let alone globally. Kill that scrap and put an mpesa shop.
Not with a tsetse fly problem in Teso that cannot be eradicated because the last time they tried a new swarm moved over from Uganda which does nothing to clear its own Teso district of Tsetse flies and the high prevalence of mosquitoes that can cause Rift Valley Fever. No. Western will regress like how Southern Nigerian farms which have the same climate have regressed
they do large scale farming, which is highly mechanized. even the US does plantation farming in Texas and New Mexico but most of the employees are immigrants from latin America who are paid lower wages, plus there is also alot of mechanization. In addition, in those countries they use private factories not like here in kenya people want to cling on unpractical dying public factories. Again in western kenya you find wafula with one acre land believing that he can make profit through sugarcane farming, they will live in poverty up to the 20th generation if they dont find other forms of farming or sensible income generation.