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    "id": 396225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Macharia",
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        "legal_name": "Jacob Waweru Macharia",
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    "content": "currently, milk retails in shops at Kshs90 to Kshs110 per litre. Therefore, a farm gate price of Kshs45 per litre is lower for some brands of milk, unlike for Molo Milk, Brookside Dairy and for other brands. So, probably, we should have said that the price of raw milk should not be less than 50 per cent of the price of processed milk on the shelves of retailer outlets. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know that almost all of us in this House have reared a dairy cow at some time. I have also been through the tribulations related to rearing of dairy cows and milk production. Maybe, to give a brief scenario, some of us from the Rift Valley region know how we have produced milk. Sometimes, we had to travel long distances to deliver the milk. The bad roads and other problems have been against us. Sometimes, we would go back with our milk, having not delivered it to the people who were supposed to pick it. We also know that school-going children sometimes wake up at 3.00 a.m. to milk their cows and deliver milk before going to school. In the evening, they rush home to milk their cows. With all those tribulations, we would finally be left at the mercy of the milk brokers, who sometimes would tell us: “ Endeni mukakunywe hiyo maziwa ”. It is sad that amid all these tribulations, in trying to produce milk, we get media reports of business people importing powder milk from Holland, Ukraine and other places. So, we pour our milk because we have nowhere to take it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me put it on record that those tribulations have culminated into despair. Almost all the milk companies in the country operate from my constituency but, as hon. ole Ntutu has said, they buy our raw milk at Kshs20 per litre. Therefore, I would like to say that, as a country, we should stand for the milk farmers. We should stand to be counted. Hon. Kimaru Bett, kindly, bring to the House a Bill on this matter. As I told hon. Kimaru when we met in the Table Office - he was just ahead of me - I was also taking there a similar Motion. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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