Dar es Salaam — The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Japhet Hasunga yesterday retracted his earlier statement banning local sugar manufacturers from importing the product.
On Tuesday last week, Mr Hasunga announced the government would stop issuing import permits to local sugar producers on the grounds that they were concentrating more on importation than expansion of their production.
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