Sugarcane farmers in Kisumu county have opposed the planned merger of Muhoroni and Chemelil Sugar Companies before being privatised.
On Tuesday, Chemelil Out-growers Company Chairman Samuel Bonyo criticised government plan to erge sugar millers in the sugar belt.
He said farmers have not accepted the proposal.
Mr Bonyo said farmers want the factories to be sold independently.
“We as farmers reject any plans to merge factories within this sugar belt as that will limit where farmers can take their sugar cane to,” Bonyo said.
News had reached the farmers that Cabinet had approved the merger of the two factories in order to get a high-bidding strategic investor.
The two companies are among the five sugar companies in Nyanza which are set to be denationalized.
Recently, Muhoroni MP James Onyango K'Oyoo said the merger was in a privatisation gazette notice which states that Muhoroni does not have enough nucleus estates for farming sugarcane to sustain the factory.
However, he said Muhoroni Sugar Company is one of the factories within the Nyando sugar belt with a massive nucleus estate.
Mr K'Oyoo spoke in Chemelil town after awarding bursaries to selected students from the constituency.
He said some powerful individuals in government are posing as investors to take over the factories.
He added that they will not allow anybody to rob farmers off the factories which they depend on for their livelihoods.
In February, Kisumu Senator Prof Anyang' Nyong'o and Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo filed a petition in court to stop the privatisation of the sugar companies.