Industrial sugarcane farming was introduced in Kenya in 1902 (Osoro, 1997). The first sugarcane factory was set-up at Miwani 10km north of Kisumu in 1922 and later at Ramisi in the Coast Province in 1927 (Osoro, 1997). After independence, the Government explicitly expanded its vision of the role and importance of the sugar industry (Republic of Kenya, 1965). In pursuit of this, the Government established five additional factories in the 1960s and 1970s, and several more (mainly private) were to come on stream between 1980 and 2010 bringing the total number of milling companies to eleven (11) (EU, 2012).