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    "id": 465964,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "farmers, the farmers who sell milk to take their children to school. They are really suffering. I urge this House to support this Motion so that our farmers can enjoy the fruits of their hard work. We no longer want to see our farmers suffering. I also want to appeal to our Governors to concentrate on capacity building. They should build the capacity of our farmers, to create infrastructure, to concentrate on building infrastructure on milk producing areas so that the cost of production can really come down. We know that in some of the areas the cost of production is going up because of poor transport network. You find the farmers have produced milk but to transport it to the market you will use more than half of what you could have gained. We also want to encourage that we also borrow technology so that our farmers can produce unga feeds from their own farms, so that they do not actually have to go to the factory to buy. We also want to encourage farmers to embrace the new technology of using manure, so that we can avoid using fertilizers which are expensive to produce feeds for our cattle. This will reduce the cost of production in our farms. Our country is doing very well especially in co-operative societies, but we want the Government to help the farmers to have many co-operative societies, so that we can reduce dependence on middle men and businessmen, who mostly come from non-producing areas. It is a pity if you look at the price of water, which is a natural resource. You do not have to have feeds to produce water, but apparently, water is more expensive than milk. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Motion. I urge this House to support it."
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