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    "content": "Act, just like other crops. I think our concern should be whether that directorate should perform the functions that the Potato Council had been assigned under this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for me, I think that will be the right way to go; we need to look at the amendments at the Committee Stage to see whether we can still capture the spirit of the Bill but implement it through a directorate under the Crops Authority instead of a separate Board because we might create a Board here which the Government might find very difficult to implement because it runs contrary to Government policies. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, farmers have to be organized. The only way to fight exploitation of farmers is for the farmers to organize themselves and have a voice. There is very little allocation of Government budgetary funds to the potato sector in this country. Indeed, when you listen to maize farmers, it is as if the potato farmers do not exist; it is as if they are not tax payers in this country. So, I think time has come for us to put some money aside."
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