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    "id": 1257827,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1257827/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "passed down and shared equally amongst the two or three sons that we have there and everybody has an acre or less. However, the fact that it does not matter how small your farm is, there is an aggregation process that brings together the tea. You take your tea to the buying centre, somebody does the job of processing it and the other person transports it to the auction. Eventually, it is sold and the money finds it way back to the farmer. Unfortunately, in many of these other crops such as maize, wheat, sorghum and rice, there is not that level of organization. Everybody is left to fend for themselves. On many occasions, I see in my county people drive big lorries and knock on one farm after another. You find that on this farm, if they get somebody who is desperate and in a difficult situation, they negotiate to buy a bag of maize at Kshs5,000. When they go to the next one and find that for one reason or the other, the farmer is not willing to sell the maize, they offer a higher price. They take advantage of our small scale-farmers because of lack of proper aggregation policies. In Kenya Kwanza’s Administration, we gave our document that guides the implementation of the priorities that we gave. In it, there is aggregation of small-scale farmers and their produce. This is to ensure we are able to gather and collate crop from the smallest of farmers to the largest and have them enjoy almost shared benefits despite the fact that they do not produce equally."
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