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    "id": 30433,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/30433/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbiuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that the price of sugar in the country has risen significantly in the past few weeks due to the countrywide shortage of the commodity. (b) The countrywide shortage of sugar is occasioned by the following factors:- An acute sugar cane shortage especially in Nyando and western sugar belt caused by severe drought in 2009 and lack of development of sugar cane and below par development of sugar cane by the new sugar millers in the zone. (c) The global sugar shortage has forced the private sector to import duty free sugar using the provisions of the COMESA quota to supplement the deficit of the whole production. We have high international prices making it impossible to supplement local production with importation from anywhere in the world. We also have high inflation rate as well as the closure of some of the factories in the country."
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