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    "id": 1456533,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1456533/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I have heard Members contribute on farmers. That is why I was asking whether milk farmers are more important. Some were claiming that milk farmers seem to be getting preferential treatment versus coffee farmers. The Finance Bill had provisions that sought to protect poultry farmers. Many of our peasant farmers are in poultry rearing. Others grow potatoes and onions. We sought to protect the onion, potato and poultry farmer from cheap imports of eggs and potatoes. What reason is there for us to be growing onions in Loitoktok or in Kieni in Nyeri County and yet, allow the importation of cheaper onions from Tanzania at the expense of the farmer in Kieni? Why would a farmer in Muchongoi in Baringo County or Kinangop in Nyandarua County be growing potatoes and yet, my famous Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and other cheap joints in town are importing potatoes from as far as Mexico and the Netherlands? We must protect our local farmers. We need time to soberly look at some of those measures to know how else to finance the deficit that we have."
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