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    "id": 1458077,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1458077/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " This is not just addressing the post-harvest losses as Hon. Justice Kemei says, and you know he is a very good farmer from Kericho, but is also addressing health and hygiene matters. When we leave our farmers to spread their maize out in the fields, you expose that maize to toxins from vehicles on the road. Also, with the heavy rains that came this year, the prevalence of aflatoxins in maize was going to be very high. But following the investment that was done in maize dryers that were deployed in those maize growing areas, we have not seen very many cases of aflatoxin in maize. Many, like Hon. Mulyungi, will remember that some years back people in Kitui County died from consuming maize that had aflatoxin. This is why it is important to support this kind of initiative. I must thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for having factored in that, to ensure that our farmers are also able to dry that maize properly, even in advanced weather conditions like the prolonged rains and during this cold season so as not to lose their produce. This does not apply to maize alone; it also involves wheat and rice. I hope to see the same dryers being deployed in Mwea, Ahero and Nyando so that rice farmers are also able to dry their rice, even when it is flooding, and they are able to sell that rice and other grains around the country. I support."
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