The payment forms part of efforts to clear long-standing worker arrears as Nzoia Sugar rebuilds operations following a major factory rehabilitation.
Authorities have closed more than 140 companies, recalled hundreds of alcohol brands and forwarded 97 illicit alcohol cases for prosecution since July 20.
The directive comes ahead of a new cocoa financing model that COCOBOD says will improve liquidity, speed up payments and support domestic processing.
India could shift more sugarcane toward sugar production next season as weak rainfall threatens output and domestic inventories approach their lowest level in decades.
Proposed KES15.5 billion safeguard and refrigeration conditions deepen regulatory standoff over East Africa’s major brewing deal.