East Africa: Smuggling Stifles Local Rice Farmers

Ugandan farmers are counting losses due to continued smuggling of rice, especially from Pakistan, thereby exposing the country to tax losses worth billions of shillings.

New Vision investigations have established that some unscrupulous businessmen import Pakistani rice which they repackage in bags with East Africa region rice producers' labels before it crosses into Uganda.

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