{"id":318357,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/318357/?format=json","text_counter":509,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Namwamba","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":108,"legal_name":"Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba","slug":"ababu-namwamba"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I would like to commend the effort to bring this Amendment Bill. In a sector which really forms part of the backbone of the economy of this country and a sector which nonetheless has remained an archiles heel in the agricultural sector--- If there is one sub-sector that really remains a national shame in the sense that all the farmers – there are hundreds or thousands of sugar cane farmers in this country - who toil and moil for hours on end in different parts of this country, talk of the"}