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    "id": 1046246,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is very important information because it helps the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) in charge of agriculture in that county to map out the location of the farmers and deploy the services of extension officers to those farmers with ease. That is the whole essence of the registration of farmers on the ground. Outside the ground, however, there is also need to register these farmers so that at the national level, it becomes so easy for the Cabinet Secretaries for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Finance and the National Treasury and even the President to approach international partners and financing institutions either for loans or grants to support the farmers who are growing this crop. The requirement for registration is noble and okay. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the matter of licensing of traders, debate has taken place on the Floor of this House with a Senator or two suggesting lighter regulations and requirements for licensing. However, at the time that I was moving this Bill yesterday, I took my colleagues through a journey that I walked to sponsor this Bill. It is for the reasons that I gave yesterday that we do not want a situation where every trader in this country who has zero input in the production of this crop, all they need to do is wait for the month of February. We are in February and Ndengu is being harvested and then towards the end of the year there will be another harvest. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, those traders will just wait for those two months in a year and they can comfortably go to a motor vehicle dealer and take as many as 50 trucks. They go around the country, mop up Ndengu at throw away prices of Kshs20 or Kshs25 or Kshs30, then two months or a month after that, they are raking in billions of shillings."
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