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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I suggest strongly to the Ministry, as we pass this Amendment Bill, to start looking at those new and potential areas. It is the only way that this country will go forward. This country will not develop the sugar sector through importation or increased importation of sugar. We also know that there is a lot of corruption in that whole sector when it comes to the whole joke about importation and those people who are involved. In previous Governments, the sugar barons were very powerful people and we know what they used to do. This would have been cut off if this Ministry could have gone out of its way to invest in new areas. The research that has been done in Tana River County, for example, shows that we are capable of producing two crops in one season or a year, when in the Western area, where sugar is grown extensively, they are only doing one crop in one year. When the coastal people say that they are being marginalized economically, these are the things. We have the climate and land, but we are just being left out. Nothing is being done. The other day I was talking about the Coconut Bill here and we raised the same things. Sugar is given prominence and there is a Sugar Act. Coffee is given prominence and there is a Coffee Act. The same applies to tea and pyrethrum. But then coconut is forgotten because it is Coast again and it must be marginalized. Coast is just like North Eastern. I am asking the Ministry to think about those new areas. There is no other area, except the Coast, that can be opened up and production be made cheap and hence, help this country meet its own requirement for sugar and even export the surplus."
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