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    "id": 194822,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "I am sure there are many sources of funds that the Government can source from including the European Development Fund (EDF) which I hear we are going into the tenth batch. I think the Ministry of Finance should look into that because those are talking of 2 per cent to 3 per cent interest rates. Those are the kinds of monies that our farmers require. But when you talk of 10 per cent, you are again giving the profit to a bank. You are not giving anything to the farmer. It is no wonder that our farmers are not interested even in the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) or bank loans any more. The reason is that their poverty cycle has never stopped! The only reason we still have farmers in this country, I want to say, is the fact that they have nothing else to do. There is unemployment for their sons. So, their sons would have to go for farming. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to mention that in Uasin Gishu District, and in Eldoret East in particular, two years ago, we discovered a better crop called the passion fruit. The passion fruit fetches more money than maize and wheat yet it is not selling much in Kenya. It is selling in Uganda. So, our farmers, at the risk of the food security of this country, are going to diversify and move to an export crop that will be going to Uganda. What are we going to do? As the leadership of this country, it is important that we come up with what we call a master plan for food security and farmers must be taken care of. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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