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    "id": 1257828,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1257828/?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": "To gather and collect the crop from the smallest farmers to the largest and have them enjoy almost shared benefits despite the fact that they do not produce equally--- The small-scale farmers do not enjoy the large economies of scale in things like pesticides and fertilizer but we should try and bridge the gap. This is a promise that we made. Therefore, it is very encouraging to see such Bills come to the House. We must support such efforts so that the people of Kenya know that indeed, as a Senate, we prioritize every need and every crop. Every Senator needs to come to the House and give us a proposal in which they can make their counties economically viable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must begin to change our thinking. That is the problem that I have. I wish Sen. Sifuna was here as I make my presentation because he comes from the school of thought that it is possible to fund counties to trillions of shillings and ensure that for every need that farmers have, we shall always send money to them. Part of the organisation that I see being brought up is the universal principle that every service that you enjoy from Government must be paid for. The good organisation, the licensing that Sen. Wambua is talking about, is not money that shall be reverted back to the national Government. That is a form of taxation for the people. However, the beauty about it and the beauty of what is in this Bill, is that I want to propose is--- the unfortunate thing is that perhaps, Sen. Wambua may need to propose during Committee of the Whole, though we can have an overarching principle for all crops about this--- when counties collect levies, then we must ring-fence that levy. The license fee should go back for the development of that particular crop. Otherwise, it will happen like it happened to us in the tea subsector Why we abolished cess and levies from the tea crop is because counties were collecting cess from tea"
}