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    "id": 1458375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I rise to oppose this amendment. When a farmer decides to plant sugarcane, that farmer is not different from the one who plants maize or tea. At the point of selling that cane crop, the farmer should sell to the person who has arrived and wants to buy. You cannot tie a farmer to the factory. If the factory becomes moribund because of poor management, the same suffering should not be transferred to the farmer. The farmers plants sugarcane so as to sell it when it matures, get the money and sort out their businesses. We are in a free market economy. You sell your crop to the person who has arrived as long as the money being paid is competitive. These issues of tying farmers to a particular market is punitive. It is not in the modern times. Farmers should be allowed to sell their cane crop to whoever has arrived with the money to buy. Saying that a factory has provided specific farmers with incentives is describing a form of debt. They can have their own arrangements on how they are going to pay each other. I rise to vehemently and profusely oppose this amendment of tying cane farmers to a particular factory."
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