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    "id": 1257844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "This is what county governments should do to give value addition to these products. In the budget that was read the other day, every county will benefit with an aggregation centre. This is where farmers will take their produce so that it can have value addition and be packed. In as much as Sen. Sifuna was saying that we should not talk about the Finance Bill, the aggregations centres would not be available without finances. The finances will not be available without the Bill. The Senator for Nandi County was right to link in the Finance Bill to the issue of the mung beans. The famers from Kitui, Makueni, Tharaka Nithi and Machakos Counties need markets to sell this produce. In the budget read by the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of National Treasury, 181 markets will be built. We will not have these markets without finances. We will not have finances without the Finance Bill. We need counties to train these farmers, not only, in the ways of farming and production but also in conservation and how to keep pests such as weevils. Additionally, when it comes to the promotion of mung beans, I support the Bill. It is a good Bill. I believe we need to copy paste and introduce other cereals when coming up with new laws. As I conclude, counties are supposed to register the growers. This is a good step towards understanding who farms this product, in what scale, whether it is on a small or a big farm? When the county has data, it will know who they distribute the subsidized fertilizer to. Of course, this is also in the budget and it requires finances from the Finance Bill. We are telling the Senator for Kitui County, that this Finance Bill will assist farmers we are talking about here. With the data, county governments will know who to give the fertilizer. If you ask them right now, they do not know whether the farmers they give it to have crops or how big their farms are. Everybody is given a sack which is about 50 or 70 Kilograms. However, maybe they have a 50 by 100 farm while another has 10 acres. Therefore, the data will enable them to know who requires what."
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