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    "content": "requires high quality seeds so that it is preferred by most consumers. The purpose of this Bill is to safeguard the quality of seeds that are used in the potato industry. This is the best thing that can happen to this type of potato that is grown in Merigi area of Bomet County. The Bill also considers the packaging and weighing of these potatoes. When you visit market places where potatoes are grown, when a customer talks about one bag, it could mean a bag weighing 50 kilogrammes or 120 kilogrammes. There is nothing that distorts the prices in the market more than these variable weights in packaging. This Bill proposes to have a standard weight and measure for potatoes. This will go a long way in the marketing of this product and get value for the farmer. The standard weights proposed by this Bill will also, to a large extent, go towards assisting farmers to continually evaluate themselves, whether they are succeeding in getting maximum produce from their land. They will know exactly how many bags of potatoes they have harvested from a piece of land. This will encourage them to improve on productivity. They will know whether their farms are productive or the quality of the seeds that they are using is assisting them. This is a very useful Bill that will cut both ways in terms of improving the quality of the product and the financial enterprise of the farmers by giving them good returns on their crop. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I strongly support this Bill and urge my colleagues to also support it, because it will go a long way in assisting the farmers who till and derive their livelihood from this product. This includes the farmers from my county, specifically in Merigi area, which produces the best quality of potatoes."
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