The Zimbabwe Sugar Association (ZSA) says Zimbabwe has enough sugar for the domestic market and even has a surplus to export.
This comes amid reports that sugar is not readily available in some major retail chains.
ZSA senior agriculture and industrial research chemist Washington Mutatu told New Ziana that the public must not panic over the availability of sugar. He said:
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I think currently we are producing enough sugar cane to produce sugar which should be able to supply our domestic market and for export.
So consumers should not be worried about the availability of sugar, it’s actually available.
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Mutatu also said sugar produced locally was uncompetitive because of the high production costs of electricity, water, fertiliser and labour. He said:
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Our cost of production is very high, so as scientists we have to investigate ways and methods of reducing the cost of production.
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Mutatu urged sugar producers to diversify into the manufacture of more sugar by-products to improve their revenue streams.
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Zimbabwe Has Adequate Sugar For Domestic Consumption - ZSA

The Zimbabwe Sugar Association (ZSA) has dismissed reports that there could be a shortage of sugar in the country.
ZSA chairman, Muchadeyi Masunda told <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/no-sugar-shortage-looming-in-zimbabwe-zsa/">The Sunday News</a> that the country has adequate sugar on the market as millers resumed operations last month.
Last week, in Bulawayo some shops were only selling one kilogramme of sugar packets with customers allowed to buy only two packets. Said Masunda:
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We can assure the market that there is no shortage of sugar with both Triangle and Hippo Mills having resumed milling at the beginning of the new milling season in April.
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He said that if adequate resources are available, it was possible for the sugar industry to double its installed capacity of producing 800 000 metric tonnes of raw sugar.
Masunda said the sugar industry required vast tracts of land in the Lowveld and a fairly sophisticated water irrigation system to double production.
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