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Rwanda depends on imported sugar to plug sugar deficits and domestic prices. Rwanda’s import orders from Uganda have helped stabilize the prices of sugar in Kigali and hit an all-time high of USD 1.47 per kilo in June to anywhere between USD 0.88— USD 0.95 per kilo in the first week of October 3, 2024.
Rwanda has overtaken Kenya as Uganda’s biggest sugar export market in the East African Community. In 2022, Uganda exported at least 1.7 MT, but the sugar full year ended December 31, 2023, and the latest sugar export data from Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), show Rwanda ordered over 35.3% or 39.3 MT out of the 111.1 MT Uganda sugar millers exported to the EAC Common Market in the nine months this year.
Rwanda depends on imported sugar to plug sugar deficits and domestic prices. Rwanda’s import orders from Uganda have helped stabilize the prices of sugar in Kigali and hit an all-time high of USD 1.47 per kilo in June to anywhere between USD 0.88— USD 0.95 per kilo in the first week of October 3, 2024.
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The country also faces challenges of shortage of land for cultivating and few investments due to low returns. Cane farmers in Rwanda prefer growing crops such as maize, rice, and vegetables in marshland.
