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    "id": 769573,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769573/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. John Owino",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13292,
        "legal_name": "John Walter Owino",
        "slug": "john-walter-owino-2"
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    "content": "THAT, aware that sugarcane production in the country has declined significantly in the past few years due to the numerous problems facing the sector including high cost of sugar production, cane poaching, low productivity and heavy indebtness on the publicly owned sugar milling plants, imprudent business decisions and corruption; concerned that the drop in the sugarcane production has resulted in shortage as well as high cost of sugar in the county; noting that traditionally, the Kenyan cane growing model has operated on an out-growers model whereby farmers are supported to grow cane on their farms and in turn, they are expected to supply the cane to the millers who facilitated cane development where the cost is recovered; further noting that in practice, development of own cane by millers, commonly known as nucleus estate as well as having contracted farmers as a precondition for licensing of cane millers is no longer adhered to, thereby creating wrangles in the cane growing zones as new millers are licensed, but do not have adequate cane to run their factories leading to encroachment on already contracted cane established by existing millers; cognizant of the fact that the genesis of cane poaching is attributable to weak and non-adherence of regulations regarding licensing of new factories and failure to honour contractual agreements by both the millers and farmers; this House resolves that the State Department of Agriculture through the Kenya Sugar Board review regulations regarding licensing of new sugar factories to ensure supply contracts are provided as proof of availability and adequacy of sugarcane supply and as a precondition for licensing of cane millers, and that contractual agreements by both millers and farmers are honoured."
}