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    "content": "THAT, aware that agriculture is the backbone of the Kenya’s economy contributing approximately 33% of the GDP and employing more than 40 per cent of the total population and 70 per cent of the rural population; noting that the sector’s performance has been declining as a result of adverse effects of climate change, resulting in droughts, famine and food insecurity; further noting that smallholder farming is predominantly rain-fed cereal grain farming and farmers experience boom harvest every time there is adequate rains; concerned that such farmers majorly lack proper post-harvest grain handling and modern storage facilities and resort to selling their harvest almost immediately after harvesting at low prices when market is flooded to reduce the risk of suffering losses through spoilage; cognizant of the fact that the current state of affairs exacerbates poverty in rural areas and there is need for instituting measures that boost local production to augment our grain reserves as stipulated under the National Food and Nutrition Security Policy, which would also lead to a reduction of grains imports in the country; this House now resolves that the Government through Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development establishes strategic grain storage reserves and silos in close proximity to smallholder farmers so as to address post-harvest inefficiencies."
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