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    "id": 1083592,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1083592/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 297,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
        "slug": "athanas-wamunyinyi"
    },
    "content": "The principal object of the Bill is to reinstate the Act which was repealed through the enactment of the Crops Act. The Bill shall restore the roles of the Sugar Board, currently the Directorate of Agriculture and Food Authority, enacted in 2013. Since 2013, ineffective stewardship of the sugar industry by the Authority has contributed to many problems in the industry including non-payment of farmers, increased cost of production due to inefficiencies in the factories arising from lack of servicing and maintenance of the factories, declining land acreage under sugar because of the discouragement farmers get due to non-payment and failure to control importation of sugar into our country. Cheap sugar is imported into our country by sugar barons and, in fact, our market has been flooded to the extent that even if sugar is produced in the country, there will be no market for it. Even if there was, it will not compete because imported sugar is very cheap."
}