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    "id": 301988,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301988/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as regards marketing, it is very important. Many a times our farmers are made to produce various crops through probably marketing by private agencies but when it comes to marketing of the products, sometimes the farmers are stuck with their products. In the long run farmers are discouraged and, therefore, they abandon the growing of those crops. I know there are very many private companies like even in western Kenya there is one that came to my constituency and we popularized the growing of capsicum – pilipili. I personally went out of the way to popularize that but after we grew the capsicum, the company was nowhere to be found and so I had problems with farmers telling me to buy their pilipili because I was the one who took that company to them but it was no longer anywhere to be found. So we need to be sure that as we encourage farmers to grow various crops, we have ready markets and this is where we go for value addition. Many of my colleagues have talked about value addition and I do not want to over-emphasize that issue. So I believe that value addition is extremely important."
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