Consumers will continue purchasing sugar at high prices after the Agriculture and Food Authority {AFA} shuttered the hopes for a reduction of the prices to normal.
AFA interim director-general Alfred Busolo said it will take about five years for the sugar production to stabilize.
On May 12, the state had allowed importation of duty-free sugar to cushion consumers from high prices which had hit sh20 per kg but Mr. Alfred said the duty-free imports from Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa {Comesa} are also expected to increase beyond the normal level.
The quantity of untaxed sugar shipped into the country is expected to range between 250,000 and 30,00 tones this year.
Most retailers are still selling a kilo at sh200 yet the tax waiver was expected to bring down the cost of sugar to a maximum of sh120.A bag of local sugar still remains at sh4800 at the factory.