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    "id": 149685,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/149685/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": " Lastly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on issues of dumping, I want to assure this House that in the last one year, we have blocked all avenues of dumping goods into the country. As a result, the sugar cane farmer today is being paid Kshs3, 200 per tonne in Western Kenya as opposed to Kshs2, 500 that they were being paid earlier. In response to the issues raised by Mr. Washiali, I would also like to say that the Government has already directed that beginning 1st January next year, sugar cane will be weighed at the farm gate as opposed to what is going on currently where sugar cane is weighed at the factory and all loses occasioned by transportation is borne by the farmer. Beginning January next year, it will be the responsibility of the millers to weigh sugar cane at the farm gate. Any loses incurred, as a result of transportation will be at the expense of the millers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, adequate arrangements have been made with the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) and we have already given direction on how equipment is going to be made available for that process to begin. Secondly, we have also instructed that bulk purchase of fertilizer be initiated under the KSB to reduce the cost of fertilizer. You will be surprised that today, the sugar cane farmer is paying Kshs3, 500 for urea which they can get at under Kshs2, 000 if the consignment was bought in bulk. We have already given direction. The tenders have been floated and in the next one or two months, fertilizer will be available to sugar cane farmers at reduced costs."
}