Levy sugar goes as sector gets first taste of freedom

The government on Thursday loosened its decades-old control over the sugar sector, offering a lifeline to the R80,000-crore industry. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a food ministry proposal seeking freedom to mills from supplying subsidised sugar for state-run welfare programmes —known as levy sugar — and scrapping the release order mechanism through which the government controls sugar sales in the open market...

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