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    "id": 301979,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301979/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchella",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 322,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": "I also wish to mention that I do not know whether the policy here addresses the issue of value addition, because we have a lot of perishable goods in this country. When you go to Nyandarua, for example, there was a time when they had a lot of vegetables and other foods. When you go to the Mau, they have a lot of potatoes but what happens? Once they flood the market, they go to waste. The farmers cannot sell them because they cannot get enough money to grow the same food the following year. Why can the policy not ensure that the private sector addresses the issue of value addition? People should be able to uptake all the excess produced and be able to convert it into non-perishable commodities; when there are no commodities in the market, the converted commodities can be put on the market and people can buy and consume them. Anywhere in the world, everything is about value addition. That is happening in most supermarkets in the world. So, this is one issue that we must address; when there is too much flooding of sukumawiki or spinach, and the poor farmer who depends on them cannot earn a living, and even a normal worker in the city or somebody who depends on salary--- We must address not just the famine problem but also the problem of people who work in towns and who depend on agriculture to survive."
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