The ruling NRM Party Chairman Yoweri Museveni has called for an urgent caucus meeting to discuss the contentious sugar bill, ahead of today's debate.
The meeting is currently taking place at office of the president near parliament.
Parliament passed the sugar bill in 2018 where they lifted the zoning policy thereby opening space for more sugarcane growers to sell to willing customers.
But the president declined assenting to the bill warning that this will put the sector at risk.
The Busoga lukiiko on Monday petitioned the speaker Kadaga over this bill ,calling parliament to stand ground on earlier decision to leave the out growers to sell the sugar cane to willing buyers.
The MPS voted against zoning saying I t allows one manufacture to monopolies sugarcane production in an area which would lead to unfair prices to farmers and curtail out growers.
Busoga katukiro (prime minister ) Joseph muvawala while handing over the petition to the speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga yesterday said that the assertion by sugar investors that zoning will cause low supply to sugar factories is not true since much sugar cane is supplied by out growers to factories.
The speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga on receiving the petition she castigated the members of the trade committee of parliament for adding their views in the sugar bill report, noting that they went beyond what the president asked to review.
The Deputy Chairperson of the NRM caucus Solomon Silwanyi say that the Nrm members need to have a consensus on the matter before the debate.