Tanzania: Imported 'Cheap' Sugar Floods Dar

CHEAP sugar that has illegally entered into the country is flooding the market threatening to choke off local producers as the government says it has not issued import permit for domestic sugar for two years.

Local sugar producers say they have 55,585 tonnes of sugar as at December 31 from four mills, Kilombero Sugar, Mtibwa Sugar Estates, TPC Ltd and Kagera Sugar Ltd.

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