Give Cane Farmers More, Oparanya Advises Millers

[The Star] PLANNING and Vision 2030 minister Wycliffe Oparanya has told sugar millers to review their contracts with farmers to ensure they benefit from new products as the firms diversify products to remain afloat in a liberalised market. "Although the Ethanol Act has not yet been passed by Parliament, millers should rewrite their contract with farmer to ensure the farmers benefit fully from the production and sale of ethanol and electricity because the two products are by-products of sugar cane," said the minister.