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    "content": "is not that we do not have institutions but what we lack is responsibility and this culture of people seeing every opportunity as one to grab and loot from the people of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, once this board is set up, and I urge hon. Chris Wamalwa to bring a Bill after this Motion is passed, we would expect an efficient board. We want a board that is transparent and responsive to the needs of the farmers. We do not want to hear of cases of a board we have set up trading with the Kenyan public and yet they get paid from the public funds. It would be really unfortunate. This country should not be importing food at all. Actually, we are blessed with enough rains and even if we do not have enough rains, we are blessed with rivers. Some of the biggest rivers in Africa are in this country. A lot of our water is used in Egypt through River Nile to irrigate crops. Actually, we are all aware that Egypt does not see rain at all. But we allow them to use our water and we do not use it. What are the reasons behind this? We make some steps forward and some several steps backwards. The Member of Parliament for Kwale talked about something to do with the Coast Province producing a lot some time back. It is true it did but even when we put in place mechanisms to produce more crops, in the end we fail a very simple test. How do we safeguard the produce from the farm to the stores and finally to consumers? Sometimes you realize that we produce a lot of crops and because of poor storage, we end up wasting all the crops. We end up throwing all the millions and billions of shillings that we inject in irrigation schemes due to carelessness in terms of storage. Therefore, I expect the current Cabinet Secretary responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture to come up with very clear policies on how to irrigate; bring more agricultural land through irrigation. After that, we want to see how fertilizers are distributed. We want to see how these crops that we get will be stored."
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