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    "id": 396230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/396230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Lay",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1022,
        "legal_name": "Joyce Wanjalah Lay",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to support this Motion as amended. It is high time the Government stepped in to defend the farmers. We know that farmers have been suffering in the hands of middlemen for a long time. It is high time something was done in order for the farmers to get the full profits of their produce. I speak as a Member of Parliament for Taita Taveta County because that problem has been going on there for a while. My suggestion to the Government is this: We have two major leading companies that enjoy the monopoly of milk business. My idea is to have them devolve that business to every county. We are talking about adding value to the milk. They should have a packaging and processing plant in every county because this will enable our youth to get jobs in the county. Right now, the additional price will be transferred to the end consumer and so the milk on the shelves will be very expensive. In order not to transfer the additional price on the milk on the shelves, the best thing is to have packaging and processing plants in each and every county. I am speaking on behalf of the farmers because I saw that problem in our county and I stepped in. We helped them put up a 20,000 litres cooling plant. We have also registered them as a co-operative society and we can see a change. Most of them now can pay school fees and even access loans. We have gone to the extent of training them on how to manufacture and use biogas so that they do not pay money for electricity. My other suggestion is that we have a campaign that every household should have a dairy cow. This will help alleviate poverty in our county. Through the"
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