Sugar in a supermarket. Current low sugar prices are expected to remain the same or even go lower in coming days, according to Sugar Directorate. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]Kenyans will continue to enjoy a reduced price of sugar which has dropped by 27 percent in the last two months occasioned by high volumes of imports.Data from the Sugar Directorate indicates a 50-kilogramme bag of sugar is currently selling at Sh4,000 at the factory gate, down from Sh5,500 in August, the Nation reports.The retail price of sugar has subsequently dropped from a high of Sh400 for a two-kilogramme packet in March to Sh250."There has been a drop in prices in the last two months following increased supply of sugar in the market," says Alfred Busolo, director-general Agriculture Food Authority as quoted by the Nation.The regulator also attributes the drop in sugar price to growth in local production after a number of factories that had been shut for regular maintenance resumed operations this week.Busolo said local production has at the same time improved from a low of 3,000 metric tonnes in August, doubling to 6,000 metric tonnes in September and early October. He pointed that consumers are likely to witness even lower prices in the coming days.The Treasury scrapped duty on imported sugar from outside the free trade bloc in May.But further imports are expected in the coming months following the move by the Treasury last week to extend a duty waiver to millers to December 31.

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