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    "id": 1488671,
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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Yes. It is Hon. David who does not understand the issues at play. He is excited about the issue. There are a number of issues that I want to bring to the attention of Members. First, is the issue of the Infrastructure Fund. It is the considered opinion of farmers and all the stakeholders that the 15 per cent, be used to support sugarcane-growing. It is proposed that 15 per cent be used for infrastructure alone. I request the Mover to inform me and the country on the following: what percentage goes to cane development; and what percentage goes to other areas within sugarcane-growing areas? Give us the whole per centum from 100: how it is being distributed? Hon. Temporary Speaker, we also have this issue of the miller; contracting a miller outside the region to come and carry the crop outside that particular miller's catchment area. It is quite contentious because another miller cannot contract another miller. Certain mills in cane-growing areas have gone under. A good example is Miwani which cannot contract an existing company to take up its farmers’ crops within that region. If a miller has gone under, it is proper for the farmers to be contracted afresh. Farmers who are not contracted afresh should be allowed to move to those areas where they can be able to sell their crops. Hon. Temporary Speaker, regarding the issue of the catchment area, I come from a sugarcane-growing county and I have been convinced to some extent by the Mover that it is only in my county where it is split into two, northern and southern. I do not know if this will disenfranchise the farmers in that particular region because out of all the catchment areas, it is only this county that has been split into two. I do not know the wisdom that informed that this county be split into two. Thirdly, Hon. Temporary Speaker…"
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