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    "id": 1086914,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1086914/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill - the Sugar Bill. I want to thank Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi for thinking keenly and working hard to bring this very important document to support and put our farmers back on track. First, I like the way the Board is constituted. Out of around 11 members of the Board, five are from the outgrower section which is composed of farmers. We have an extra one from accounts which I suspect will come from the farmers’ section. This puts the farmers in the first position to see what is best to be done. If the Board will be run properly, our millers in Kenya will have serious problems running from factory efficiency. Some factories are poorly serviced because of lack of funding. We want to believe that when the Board becomes operational, it will support our millers to have enough funds to enable them to do “Out of Crop (OoC)’’ maintenance once every year. When you do not maintain the factory, its efficiency comes down to what is called TCTS erosion. The number of tonnes of sugar-cane you crash vis-à-vis the number of dry cane you get from the same tonnage. If the ratio comes down, then our factories in this country will produce the best for our people. Something very important which I cannot forget to mention today is that our farmers suffer a lot in terms of transport. We also want to see the Board addressing this issue. When cane is harvested, it is the farmer who meets the cost of the sugar-cane from his farm to the miller. When the Board comes up with regulations, let the miller take up the cost of transport. If you sell an animal in your home, for example, you do not pay somebody who has bought that animal to take it to the market. Why should farmers suffer the cost of transporting sugar-cane to the miller? Finally, when they harvest their cane, they cannot know its tonnage until they go to the factory. We want those millers to weigh sugar-cane in the farms so that farmers can know how much they have gotten when they release it from their farms. Sometimes, we have spillages on the way which is a cost to the farmer. A farmer can take care of his cane for 16 months, protecting it from predators and destroyers but when he harvests it, the trucks spills some of it on the roads. With that, the farmer loses from the spillage. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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