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    "id": 1498871,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498871/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr Andrew Mwihia Karanja",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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    "content": "We have also embarked on a land commercialisation initiative. This is an initiative where we are teaming up with the private sector to encourage them to come and lease land from Government institutions like the Agriculture Development Corporation (ADC). We are giving leases from 10 to 35 years. Some of them have come up with leases where they are able to grow crops like canola, simsim and sunflower. This will also help us to improve our local production. On livestock, because it is also an important area, when it comes to milk, we are also importing a big chunk of products, especially value-added products like cheese. What we are doing is to ensure that we give farmers incentives to produce more milk. We are going to provide milk coolers to dairy farmers. Currently, we are in the process of procuring milk coolers to reduce post-harvest loss in milk. The one that is collected is improved and processed. We had already distributed about 350 coolers between 2018 and 2022. Currently, we are procuring 230 coolers which will be distributed in early January to February 2025. This is to ensure that farmers get coolers and preserve milk. That way, there will be no loss and there will be improved production."
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