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The Government is finalising a modern legal framework for the sugar industry and will shortly establish a dedicated training institute for the sector, according to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Hon. Floyd Green.

He said the industry remains a very important sector that is still critical to the nation’s food security matrix, and the Government must lead a process to renew laws regulating the industry for profitability.

“We have to have a facilitatory framework that ensures that people who want to invest in sugar can do so and do so profitably. Farmers should...