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    "id": 1463602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1463602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
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    "content": "Infrastructure is very key. Some of the farms and farmers are in the swampy areas. Farmers who plant cane in swampy areas are disadvantaged when the right harvesting time comes. For example, if you have planted cane in a swampy area and harvesting takes 18 months, and then you arrive at a date when it is raining, the cane will not be harvested until the dry spell. Let us have better infrastructure even in swampy areas so that it can become very easy. That way, when the cane matures, the farmers can benefit from it. It is also giving people who come from cane-planting regions nightmares. It is funny you are realising now that, instead of even millers upping the game in terms of the price of cane, they are reducing it. We are not going to agree, when the price of fertiliser is skyrocketing and fuel is increasing because tillage of land is done by tractors, you get a miller reducing the price. We are not going to think about that. If we do that, then a farmer will be frustrated, run out of play and then we shall start importing sugar into this country. We are not sure of the safety of the sugar that comes in. The sugar that is produced by us goes through a law called GRAS, which means Generally Regarded as Safe in terms of quality because we know our millers. On sugar that come into this country from other countries, we cannot assure our Kenyans about cancer-causing issues."
}