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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Sitienei",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Jepkemboi Sitienei",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you. I have been waiting for so long. I did not know the machine had a problem. Maybe, I should take this opportunity to thank you for giving me this opportunity. I also want to thank the Member for Tinderet for bringing this Motion which is very important. I come from Turbo, a place where farmers have embraced sugar-cane farming as a cash crop. I feel for those farmers because despite the fact that they have embraced sugar-cane as a cash crop, they have actually embraced poverty through non-payment and a myriad of challenges that they face as sugar-cane farmers. I want to cite a few problems that our farmers face. Apart from non-payment, for which I stand here to support this Motion, one of the problems that our farmers face is acquisition of fertiliser through the companies that contract them. They are given fertilizer at a double price and as a loan, which renders them poorer because the production costs go up. Two, during the harvesting season, you find that most of those companies come to collect sugar-cane during the wet season and every time the truck is stuck, the farmer is charged Kshs10,000. That makes the farmer even poorer. On the way to deliver the cane, for those farmers who are poor - and those 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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