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    "id": 142517,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I thank the Member for the suggestion she has made, I want to inform her that the Farmers Stakeholder Forums are the most transparent fora. It brings together all the farmers and farmer interest groups in every location. The chairman of that forum is neither our extension officer nor the chief or any public official. It is mandatory that the chairman of the Farmers Stakeholder Forum at the location is a farmer chosen by the farmers themselves. However, we are prepared to continue to refine this methodology so that we get the best way of identifying farmers and avoid any possibility of undeserving cases getting the fertilizers. I welcome any suggestions from the hon. Member or any other person on how we can best improve the mechanism of availing the free fertilizer to farmers whenever the Government has set aside a budget to do that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issues of Malawi, it is a very important development but we should not exaggerate what happens in Malawi. This House needs to understand that the Minister for Agriculture in Malawi is the President himself. He, therefore, could force subsidies of up to 67 per cent. The subsidy I managed to negotiate here is only about 15 per cent. The difference is enormous but I think progressively, as we appreciate the necessity to make our farmers plant using fertilizer and use any means to make the fertilizer affordable and available, we will ensure that we avail fertilizer to our farmers."
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