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    "id": 1463598,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1463598/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the reference he has put is onomatopoeia. It puts us together in the same circles of when we were elected and circumcised. The word bakoki is a sweet term used for a person you love most. The Motion that Hon. Nabulindo has put across to this Assembly puts a farmer as a central midfielder in the sugar industry. We cannot, as a nation, put serious emphasis on the millers alone. You know very well that a river that forgets its source will die soon. The source of all the sugar industries in Kenya is the farmers. They are the ones who prepares the stabilisation of the millers. Millers have nucleus estates, but the percentage of the cane that is produced there is around 7-10 per cent. That does not run a factory. In fact, much of the emphasis, as we talk today, is in terms of hybridisation of the cane. The cane was researched in the 1980s. We need to lay much emphasis on early maturity and high-pole content. Pole content is sucrose content. We must have a cane with high succulency in terms of juice production so that a smaller scale farm can produce cane with high productivity. This will only come if we invest much in the research for the sake of farmers. We need to do much of that genetic hybridisation to bring in better breeds that can mature fast. If you look at a country like Malaysia, they have a cane that matures within seven months. This will increase the output of a small farm, capture maximisation of the miller and increase the farmer’s profit. The rate of harvest will be higher in a year."
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