Kinyara is approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi), by road, west of Masindi, the nearest large town and the location of the district headquarters.
[5] KSL is the second-largest manufacturer of sugar in Uganda, producing an estimated 110,000 metric tonnes annually, accounting for approximately 31 percent of national output.
In the 1990s, KSWL was rehabilitated by Booker Tate Limited with aid and loan agreements for various funders underwritten by the Ugandan government.
The sales agreement called for the Rai Group to float this shareholding in an IPO on the Uganda Securities Exchange after five years.
[11] In September 2011, the Rai Group, who owned 70 percent of the company shares, signed commitments to invest US$55 million in the factory within three years, increase production to at least 200,000 metric tonnes annually within the same time period, and use the baggase to generate 35 megawatts of electricity, of which 22 megawatts were to be sold to the national grid.