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    "id": 465963,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/465963/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1915,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "This Motion is really good and we need to support it because the economy of this country can actually be driven from within by ensuring that our farmers are strengthened. The producers have really suffered of late because of the following reasons: One, the cost of production. Basically, the cost of dairy feeds has gone up. I remember many farmers have been moving from one sector to the other. There were farmers who were concentrating on chicken but the feeds went up and they moved to producing wheat. The wheat sector was also hit hard by a lot of rain which gives room to a lot of problems like diseases and those sort of things. The farmers have again gone back to dairy farming but during the rainy season they lack markets. I remember there was a very sad story in Ol Kalou in Nyandarua District where milk was being poured. The farmers are crying. We need our country to go back and concentrate on helping the farmers come up with strong co-operative societies which should be encouraged and assisted to set up factories which can actually convert this milk to powder and then we export it. If we empower our farmers, we will not have these problems of the middlemen monopolizing and setting the prices in whatever way they want. I hope through this kind of Motion the Government will come up with a policy where they encourage farmers to set up their own factories. We know that KCC is said to be owned by farmers but how many farmers in this country have shares in KCC? There are very few. The farmers we are talking about are the small-scale farmers, the village The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}