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    "id": 619701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/619701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "We have a number of issues that this Report has alluded to which when we follow through with the implementation of recommendations, hopefully will come out clearly. Let me start with licensing. On licensing of factories in the Nyando Zone, we have the old Miwani Sugar Factory, Chemelil Sugar Factory and Muhoroni Sugar Factory within a very short distance from each other. They are all struggling for the same resources. In western Kenya, we have West Kenya Sugar and Butali Sugar factories furiously fighting for raw materials because of their proximity. Mumias Sugar Company is next door. In Busia, we have West Kenya Sugar Factory and Busia Sugar Industries 10 kilometers apart already in and out of court. This is not conducive for the development of sugarcane in that area. In this Report, they have analysed reasonably well the institutional problems and I am going to deal with a bit of that. They have not gone deeply on the technical and scientific limitations. They have rushed to blame farmers with declining land size. Therefore, they will not be able to produce sugarcane. You do not have to use a tractor to produce sugarcane. You can still produce cane on a smaller land size. Many parts of India are producing sugarcane using buffaloes. They do not use machinery the way we do. Our production model does not suit the conditions. You are not going to change society to suit a technology. You adopt the technology to suit the preference of society. If society is subdivided, technology is what should change. When you reach a limit in the changing technology then the production of that item may cease to occur and that will not necessarily be a bad day. Something else will have taken root. We cannot say like they have said in the Report that the Government should do everything and put in place The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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