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    "content": "ex-factory price of sugar, the average recovery and 50 per cent sharing of proceeds between the miller and the farmer. The sugar industry is expected to change the cane pricing formulae from one based on weights to the one of sucrose content. This is expected to give incentives to farmers to deliver high quality cane to the factory and the miller to maintain milling efficiencies to optimize sugar recovery. The industry has already commenced the process of transitioning from inefficient weight-based system to one based on quality. The pilot cane testing unit in Nzoia Sugar Company is currently doing trial runs. The European Union (EU) is funding the purchase of installation of a sucrose based cane payment system in Sony Sugar Company. A consultant was hired by the EU to come up with the specifications of the cane testing unit that is to be procured using EU specific commitment funds at centralized arrangements. The Kenya Sugar Board has signed a project evaluation report and sent it to the EU so that the letter of award can be issued to the contractor who is M/s Du Cray Lenoir International Limited of Mauritius. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other question was: “Is the Government making any effort to strengthen the partnership between the different private sector players within and outside the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region, to design programmes and projects that will mitigate this threat, in line with the COMESA initiative that is funded currently by a joint effort between the COMESA Secretariat and the Ministry of Finance and the Government of Mauritius?” Madam Temporary Speaker, the Kenya sugar industry is actively seeking to partner and work with other progressive players regionally and internationally. To this end, Kenya is engaging with COMESA, East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) in negotiations for a tripartite free trade area for sugar, which will expand investment and market opportunities for members. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the sugar cane development front, Kenya is in close partnership with the Indian sugar sector, drawing from its successful outgrower model. Kenya is an active member of the International Sugar Organization, through which the industry has recently received, in partnership with Uganda and Tanzania, financing from the common fund for commodities for a variety of importation programmes to enhance the germ plasm and expand the genetic base for sugar cane varieties. This is expected to address the following challenges common to the three countries:- (a) low sugarcane yield; (b) old sugarcane varieties; and, (c) widespread use of untreated seed-cane. Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to lay this answer on the Table."
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