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    "id": 7353,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/7353/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The price of sugar has increased significantly due to reduction in sugar production from an average of 55,974 metric tonnes in January to 26,060 metric tonnes in August. In fact, in September it went down to 22,000 metric tonnes. This was occasioned by shortage of cane; overhaul of premium prices by the European Union (EU) market; and the general global increase in the price of sugar from US$282.11 to US$560.9 per tonne currently. (b) Measures to mitigate sugar supply and price include the following in the short term: Aggressive cane development campaign with facilitation from the Sugar Development Fund (SDF); putting a halt to the harvesting of immature cane especially in the Nyando sugar zone; invest in the rehabilitation of the parastatal mills to improve sugar recovery parameters, through the facilitation of SDF. The Kenya Sugar Board is in the process of clearing 51 applicants to bring in sugar immediately they are cleared. In the long term, we intend to establish a strategic sugar reserve; increase adoption of early maturing varieties of cane; increase the synchronization of factory capacity with cane supply through enforcement of cane supply contracts; privatization of the parastatal sugar companies; embracing irrigation technology; comprehensive cost reduction initiatives both at farm and factory levels, and introduction of two new mills in Transmara Mills and Sukari Mills that will start crushing later this month."
}