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    "content": "We can grow enough wheat and rice to feed our population provided we have structures and prices that guarantee at least some minimum returns to the farmer. The same goes for potatoes. As we all know, potatoes get ready at a particular time of the year and when the season is on for harvesting, there is over supply of potato produce which is a perishable commodity. This means when the farmers go to the market, they are likely to incur a loss because they will be offered the least prices. This Bill seeks to regulate the marketing of potatoes. For instance, farmers in their quest to sell their potato produce, sometime are blackmailed by brokers and dealers to package it in double and sometimes triple bags because there is no standard and farmers have ended up being exploited. Potato is a bulky material: people who grow potato in my county, in the Cherang’ani Hills and Mt. Elgon, transport potato by donkeys and when they reach the market in the lower areas and they do not get the right price, the temptation is to sell at any price rather than take it back because going back up the hill is an impossible task and they have to dispose it with a lot of suffering to the farmer. Potato is consumed by the well to do in this country but the producer of potato is the most impoverished. These are contradictions that our system should really look at and I am The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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