Sugarcane harvesting. [Photo/nation.co.ke]Millers harvesting immature sugarcane risk having their licences revoked.The Sugar Directorate has warned millers against breaching the contract.Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) director-general Alfred Busolo has warned millers against breaching the contracts entered that requires them to harvest only mature cane.“We have made it clear to them that we are going to take stern action against those who are harvesting immature cane. They risk losing their licences,” he said.He affirmed that there is enough sugar in the country hence no need of harvesting immature cane.Kenyan millers use the weight-based method to pay farmers and immature cane is normally underweight.“Immature cane costs the millers a lot in terms of expenses and we are trying as much as we can not to use it, that is the reason why we have limited our production days to four in a week,” he said.Sugar production in the country dropped 49 per cent in nine months to September as factories grappled with a shortage of raw material.

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