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    "id": 47039,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/47039/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support the Motion on the Floor. I congratulate the Committee for such a good report that they have done. It is a huge report, but I have read it. This report confirms one thing; that the sugar cane farmers in this country are among the poorest among farmers. We have talked about it; the farmers have talked about it; everybody in the sugar industry has talked about it. The House today reconfirms, because it has come on the Floor of this House severally. This is not the first time we are discussing ills in the sub-sector. I hope the Government this time round will do something about it. Farmers lose a lot. When they grow the cane, all the inputs; fertilizers, land preparation, weeding - at the end of the day, when harvesting comes what they get out of it does not pay off. It comes 18 months later after all the work has been done on the farm. If the farmer had put that money in the bank, I think he would have been better off because his money would earn him some interest. This crop takes at least 18 months for the farmer to harvest. Unfortunately, after harvesting, my colleagues have talked about farm gate weighing of sugar cane. According to the Sugar Act, cane should be weighed at the farm"
}