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    "id": 1184225,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184225/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "I want to pick from my colleague Hon. Didmus Barasa, that we have enough maize in the North Rift, within Trans Nzoia and Bungoma. It is enough that we should not be importing maize at this moment when our farmers are harvesting. I want to make it clear that I heard the Leader of the Majority Party say that we are harvesting about 30 million bags and so, we will have a deficit of 10 million bags. The right time to import is when we get that deficit of 10 million bags. It is not now. It will be prudent for us to import from Uganda. Endebess borders Uganda. Many of our farmers from Kenya plant maize in Uganda because it is cheaper to hire land in Uganda. You can lease land at about Ksh5,000 per acre yet in Kenya, we lease at between Ksh12,000 to even Ksh15,000. The people who have leased land in Uganda are Kenyans farming there. The productivity is high there. Once they have produced their maize, they bring it to sell to us. Many of them are facing restrictions at the border. When they are coming with their maize to sell it back here at home, they are asked for taxation at the border. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) demands some tax from them. They demand money from the lorries ferrying their maize, which I think is an unnecessary restriction if we need to make our people food sufficient. In previous regimes, we had the shamba system within communities neighbouring forests. In this shamba system, we planted trees and maize together. Once the trees grew to certain levels, you could no longer plant maize, and this kicks you out of planting maize."
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