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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I encourage the Chairman - the Ameru king- whom I have congratulated for resisting the coup to make sure that his Committee assists the sponsor of the Bill to cascade the packaging from 50 kilogrammes downwards. The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) is there to do this and any other marketing structured organization so that potatoes are not just packaged at 50 kilogrammes but down to a level where a mama can walk in to a supermarket or a retail shop, pick two kilogrammes with standadisation and quality. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must also emphasise on quality because we are going to compete. We are not the only potato growers in the region. Our neighbours grow potatoes as well and that is how the research mechanism comes in to continuously improve the quality of the crop within the farmers, whether in what we call Irish potatoes. Perhaps today we should call them “Nyandarua potatoes” because that is where they are largely grown and the sweet potatoes should be called “Western potatoes” because you will find lots of them in the Western region of this country. More importantly, I do not know how this mechanism will be done to make sure there is value to the farmer. The other day I went with my friend hon. Stephen Kalonzo to have lunch in some restaurant and we were served some small quantity of sweet potatoes, hardly a mouthful, what a good eater in the village would call a mouse trap, but the Bill was almost Kshs3,700 per plate. These are potatoes picked from mamas at home at Kshs2. How can we cascade this very high quality pricing back to the farmer? The farmers must have some value for their sweat. I would like to encourage that just as we have recommended retail prices for"
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