National Sugar Policy, a Framework for enhancement of Competitiveness, Public-Private Partnership and Social Transformation.

This Sugar Policy is a nationwide sectoral document aiming at (i) institutionalizing harmony among all the sugar industry stakeholders to promote and sustain its growth and development and transform and diversify the sugar sector to become competitive in the domestic and regional markets as well as using modern technologies and in a more environmentally sustainable manner; (ii) providing a framework to guide specific policy actions concerning the development of the sugar sub-sector in Uganda; (iii) offering policymakers and the private sector a coherent direction to guide coordinated performances and implementation of the Policy. The specific objectives of the Policy are (i) establish a sugar sector regulatory mechanism to oversee, monitor, and possibly arbitrate in respect to major issues concerning the sector; (ii) establish cane growing zones for the mills to be within an adequate distance within a large land suitable for cane growing; (iii) provide a framework for product pricing based on market forces; (iv) promote research and development into all aspects of sustainable sugar cane growing, sugar processing and value addition to by-products, to support the growth and productivity; (v) promote sustainable land management practices to improve the productivity of land and protect it against destruction; (vi) review the role of the sugar industry to formulate plans for expansion of cane growing, sugar production and product revenue sharing; (vii) develop relevant and meaningful social responsibility development projects within sugarcane growing areas; (viii) provide a framework for the development of sugar stakeholder associations.