{"id":243078,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/243078/?format=json","text_counter":162,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Capt. Nakitare","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":348,"legal_name":"Davis Wafula Nakitare","slug":"davis-nakitare"},"content":"asked the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing:- (a) whether he is aware that almost 75 per cent of co-operative societies are on the verge of collapse due to mismanagement and uncontrolled loans, which pose a threat to coffee, tea, cotton and maize farmers; (b) whether he is further aware that as a result of the above, farmers are abandoning cash and food crop farming, leading to food shortages; and, (c) which co-operative societies are on the verge of collapsing and what steps he is taking to salvage them."}