Type Private Products Sugar | ||
Industry Manufacture & distribution of sugar Key people Mayur Madhvani,chief executive officer of the Madhvani Group | ||
Amuru Sugar Works Limited (ASWL) is a proposed sugar manufacturing company in the Northern Region of Uganda.
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Location
The factory and sugar plantation would be located south of the Zoka Forest in Amuru District, Acholi sub-region. This location would be approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi), by road, north-west of Gulu, the largest city in the Northern Region.
Overview
Sometime before 2010, the Madhvani Group applied to lease 40,000 acres (63 sq mi) in Amuru District to establish a commercial sugar plantation and a factory. Uganda's central and district governments consented to the deal, but the resident communities, through their traditional leaders, objected. In September 2010, parliament members from the Acholi sub-region sued the Madhvani Group and the traditional chiefs over the "land giveaway". In 2012, the Madhvani Group won that case. The most contentious issues are "who owns the land?" and "who has the right to determine how that land can be used?"