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    "id": 1049197,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waluke",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "we used to see extension officers visiting farmers to know their problems so that they improve on production. As we speak, the extension officers are not there. It means we are performing very poorly in agriculture due to lack of support. We are importing unnecessary things like eggs which are supposed to be produced by our farmers in this country. We are importing eggs from neighbouring countries like Uganda. We are importing milk from neighbouring countries like Uganda, instead of us promoting the farmers like other countries do to support their farmers and their country. We are doing very badly with coffee farming just because of middlemen that are in the middle trying to run this country down trying to steal from the farmer. As we speak, the Government has not brought in subsidised fertilizer to the farmers. Let me speak to farmers of maize from the Rift Valley and Bungoma where we farm maize. Farmers always get fertilizer at a reasonable price but the price of fertilizer has gone up, Kshs3300 per bag of fifty kilos instead of Kshs1800 that the Government used to bring to the farmers. So, this will bring our people back to importing maize from outside the country and yet farmers can sustain this country with food. So, the CSs who are appointed, especially the CS of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives should support this Government to make sure that everything that is supposed to be done, like what Hon. Tandaza has brought on this crop, is supported. We are as Members of Parliament (MPs) earning salaries from the farmers. We do not produce the money that we earn. We do not produce money to pay ourselves or for our salaries. We just earn from the common mwananchi who is a farmer out there. So I am urging MPs to deeply come out and support the agricultural sector of this country, especially this project that Hon. Tandaza has brought. We are to support it so that we can get more money to support this country. For those few remarks, I thank Hon. Tandaza for bringing this. As a House we need to support it. We need to fully support the Government so that this country can stand in each and everything. Thank you very much."
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