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    "id": 948492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "The same situation is in Bungoma for the cane farmer. The cane farmer is the most ill-treated farmer in this country. For breweries to make alcohol, they buy sugar, hops and all the input in cash. They then produce alcohol and sell. Every factory must buy its raw materials on cash basis and make their produce and sell. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the sugar sector, the farmer will plant cane which will mature in 24 months. He will then deliver to the factory. At the end of the day, the factory will first pay the contractor who ploughed, the contractor who transported, the employees, the management and the contractor who delivered spare parts and the last person to be thought about is the farmer who delivered the critical raw material. This runs through the entire agricultural sector, whether it is maize, tea or coffee. My brother here from Kiambu only knows about the sad story of coffee in Kiambu until people have turned coffee farms into real estate because there is no income from it. The farmer plants their coffee, looks after it, sprays it and at night vandals come and harvest the coffee. When you wake up in the morning, you have no coffee. I am told that in Kiambu County, vandals are even milking your cows at night. You wake up in the morning and you have nothing."
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