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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "It is my hope and aspiration that this programme shall be extended to all the crops and not just to the maize farmers that are doing this under the subsistence farming. I believe that as they model this programme, they will make it in a better way. That it shall be crop specific so that tea, sugar and coffee farmers and so on and so forth, are able to benefit from this enormously from this programme. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, of course I know for a fact and this is something that we need to check as a House, in to ensure that our farmers access this subsidy fertilizer at the nearest point. I know this because this was the initial test run. Many of them had to travel long distances to go and pick a bag or two of fertilizer. It is my hope that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries can team up with our Agriculture and Veterinaries (Agrovets). At least in every village that I know in this republic, that has a farming population there is an Agrovet. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in these Agrovets, they can link up together with our Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, so that a farmer walks to the centre closest to their home, picks up this subsidized fertilizer, go and till their land and produce cheaply. Of course, we know for a fact that the Government has worked extremely hard to bring down the cost of inflation from a high of 9.8 per cent last September, now to a downwards of 6 per cent. It can even get better as we continue to produce and tap into the long rain seasons that we are having. There is need to invest further in post-harvest handling because we know many of our farmers continue to lose almost 20 to 30 per cent of their products because of post- harvest loses."
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