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    "id": 396075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/396075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shill",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1465,
        "legal_name": "Elias Bare Shill",
        "slug": "elias-bare-shill"
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    "content": "others. Kenya is an agricultural country and, therefore, the Government must encourage smallholder livestock farmers to produce milk. But by giving Kshs27 per a litre, the Government is discouraging production of milk. When we talk about cows which produce milk, people think in terms of zero-grazing only. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I come from a pastoralist area and the economic activity there is keeping of cattle, camel and all those animals. Most people who make products from milk, import powder milk. This shows that they have no faith in our milk production because it gets bad very quickly. Why can we not harness milk and make it into powder and even give it out during famine? Famine relief is given in form of maize only and not any other food items. People should be encouraged to produce milk. The Government should cushion farmers so that they can produce more milk that can even be used during drought. Milk from Turkana, Samburu, Garissa, Wajir and Mandela can be dried so that it can be used during famine. We want to encourage the Government to pay farmers well so that they can produce enough milk. Hon. Deputy Speaker, water is becoming more expensive than milk; therefore, there must be something very serious. You cannot equate milk with water which is available everywhere. Therefore, it is an abuse when you give farmers Kshs27 for a litre of milk. The Government is involved in double speak, they want to encourage farmers and at the same time they are discouraging them. Nowadays people are not involved in dairy farming because they feel it is not profitable. Hon. Deputy Speaker, during the 1970s people tried to have grade cows which could produce a lot of milk. When somebody had grade cows at that time, he or she was considered to be rich. However, these days they have made people very poor because they do not help."
}