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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "it is important for us to focus on manufacturing fertiliser in this country. If we are able to manufacture fertiliser, we can manufacture fertiliser for different types of soils that we have. There is no time in the foreseeable future when we will not use fertiliser in this country. Kenya will need fertiliser as long as we are probably engaged in agricultural production just as much as the other countries. In that case, we need to focus on doing exploration on the ingredients of fertiliser or the supply of ingredients of fertiliser in this country. I know there is this belief that this country does not have sufficient rock phosphate deposits. The fact that we may not have enough does not bar us from manufacturing. It may be cheaper to import some of the ingredients we may not be having to enable us to manufacture the type and quality of fertiliser we need. If we look back about one year ago, we had many issues with fertiliser in this country. Many people were sold low-quality fertiliser because of the lack of appropriate fertiliser supply in this country. Sometimes, we have issues that bar us from getting fertiliser in good time. Our farmers have had to plant without the quality and type of fertiliser they need because it is not available. Last year, we also experienced delays in fertiliser transportation from the source country to Kenya because we had to go through South Africa. The luggage was hauled through South Africa because the war in the Middle East affected the Suez Canal. This is an issue that can occur at any time. The war between Russia and Ukraine has also been an issue. These externalities have been affecting us in one way or another. One of the ways of surely curbing it and ensuring that we can supply the type of fertiliser in the correct period that is required and at the point of use is by manufacturing fertiliser in this country. So, I would like to support this Motion to the extent that we need to explore exactly what we have and do not have in this country to focus on how we can organise ourselves to manufacture fertiliser. There have been efforts to blend in various parts of this country. The blending effort can inform the next step, which is manufacturing fertiliser in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."
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