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    "id": 433868,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/433868/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "We can protect local manufacturing by levying taxes on imports. That will actually protect the local production of fertilizer. On the other hand, we cannot only rely on production without seeking to improve the quality of fertilizer that we will be producing. Innovations and production in this country, especially of services and processes, are normally constantly improved via research and technology through our research institutions like the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI), Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and others. Therefore, it will be prudent for the Government to provide a budget or a subsidy. It can allocate some money for innovation to take place, so that we can constantly improve the fertilizer. Because of time, I would like to touch on how the fertilizer distribution has been taking place in the country at the moment, or in the season that has passed. In the last season, peasant farmers who normally rely so much on the subsidized fertilizer could not afford the fertilizer in the shops. This time, they did not get it in the right quantities simply because the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture gave instructions for the formation of committees headed by the chiefs to distribute fertilizer. I would urge that, if it is possible, to revert back to the system that was there before, so that farmers can buy the fertilizer directly from NCPB depots rather than using chiefs. Most of the fertilizer ended up in the hands of the middlemen and those who did not require it for planting. They just sold it!"
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