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    "id": 113882,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/113882/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
        "slug": "william-ruto"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am aware that unscrupulous businessmen and brokers exploit farmers whenever the Government is not available to buy maize as a buyer of last resort. That is the very reason why I have instructed NCPB to open its stores beginning yesterday. Farmers are now on the clear that they can deliver their produce and they can be paid. I am assuring them that they will be paid within seven days of their deliveries. We have negotiated successfully in the last two days to get Kshs600 million to buy free seeds and free fertilizer for the resource poor farmers, especially those in areas that experienced total crop failure. Therefore, on our earlier plan in which we exhausted the funds last year, the World Bank has been kind enough to give us US$5 million, the Government has allocated Kshs250 million and we have now started the process of identifying the needy farmers that will qualify for the free seeds and free fertilizer in regions that have experienced total crop failure and are spread in many areas that will be going to the planting season this March and April. Therefore, I want to assure my brother, Prof. Kaloki that we will look at maybe 1,000 farmers in his constituency and in other areas to benefit from that scheme."
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