{"id":179895,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/179895/?format=json","text_counter":49,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ndambuki","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Agriculture","speaker":{"id":191,"legal_name":"Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki","slug":"gideon-ndambuki"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that after being reactivated in 2007, the National Cereals and Produce Board, Maragwa Depot, has not closed down. (b) My Ministry, through the NCPB, has posted a depot manager and a stores clerk to operationalize the facility. (c) The recommended prices charged for cereals and other produce are as follows:- Maize - Kshs1,750 per 90-kilogramme bag; beans - Kshs5,940 per 90-kilogramme bag; rice - Kshs110 per kilogramme; the CAN fertilizer - Kshs1,700 per 50-kilogramme bag and wimbi flour - Kshs65 per kilogramme. The services provided by the NCPB are drying of cereals at Kshs311.10 per tonne; cleaning of cereals at Kshs50 per 90-kilogramme bag; warehousing at Kshs31.25 per square foot and fumigation at Kshs87 per tonne."}