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    "id": 1114471,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1114471/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silas Tiren",
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        "legal_name": "Silas Kipkoech Tiren",
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    "content": "(g) in paragraph 7 in subparagraph 2(b) by deleting the word “zones” appearing at the end of the subparagraph and substituting therefor the words “sugar catchment region”; (h) by deleting paragraph 8 and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— Sugar Cane Pricing Committee. 8. (1) There shall be a Sugar Cane Pricing Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the Committee”). (2) The Committee shall comprise of — (a) the Chief Executive Officer of the Board; (b) two persons nominated by the Kenya Sugar Manufacturers Association; (c) three persons nominated by the sugar cane growers form the sugar catchment region; (d) one representative from the sugar lobby groups; (e) the Principal Secretary responsible for matter related to agriculture or a representative appointed in writing; (f) one representative from county government nominated by the Council of Governors; and (3) The main objectives of the Committee shall be to— (a) review sugar cane prices; (b) provide a mechanism that remunerates farmers for other products delivered from the processing of cane; (c) ensure adherence to negotiated cane pricing formula; (d) transition to payment based on quality; and (e) enforcement of contracts between farmers and millers. (4) The Committee shall come up with the pricing formula and in doing so shall take into account the— (a) pricing mechanisms for all other cane related charges paid by the farmer; and (b) an index that takes into consideration delayed harvesting; (c) transportation cost per tonne per kilometre of sugar-cane. (5) The Board shall offer Secretariat services to the Committee (6) The sugar-cane prices set by the committee under sub paragraph (2) shall be reviewed after every thirty-six months provided that the Committee may, with the prior approval of the Board, undertake an early review of the sugar-cane pricing. The intention of this Schedule is to give guidelines of entering into agreements with actors in the sugar sector. The proper word would therefore be ‘guidelines’ as opposed to ‘agreements’."
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