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    "content": "later on. I am speaking passionately about potatoes and in the process, waking up all the other sectors that are dying. Early last year, some Senators visited the Senate of Belgium. In the process, we visited the farms. We should never be cheated because other countries are developing their own niche products, yet they advise countries in Africa to destroy their products. I mentioned this the other day when we met the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury. I said that maize farming is now collapsing in Kenya. This is because the fertilizer that we are now getting is subsidized, but it has serious effects. After harvesting your maize, a new weed that is very resistant grows. Some of the fertilizers that come into the country as donations come with other effects. They mess up with the soil and the production goes down every year. As we look at the Potato Produce and Marketing Bill, we need to advise the Governors and everybody to identify crops that can thrive in their regions. In my county and Turkana County, for example, we have cows. But can the Government together with the county government assist us to make those regions disease-free and eradicate cattle rustling? People from Kakamega are known to buy bulls from our place. They then use them to attract tourists through bullfighting that happens every weekend. However, we can concentrate on beef production. When it comes to fish production, we can benchmark with counties that produce fish. Turkana County has oil but it does not have maize which is grown in plenty in Trans Nzoia and Uasin Gishu counties. Therefore, it is time we revisited the laws that were enacted in the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to see cotton production being revived. Out of the 24 factories that we had, we now have four that are functioning. We are importing clothes. The people who told us to kill our industries are now clapping their hands. The people that make our clothes are in China and India. The other day we had a challenge in our county. We have 150,000 children in primary schools and all the uniforms are imported. You can just make a phone call to China and they make them overnight and then deliver them. We can also do it right here. KICOMI collapsed in Kisumu. How many people were employed by KICOMI? Sen. Orengo, you know that you could not go to Kisumu in the morning because the road was full of people walking to the factory. Now, they are not there even in the evening. We have lost what we are supposed to address. As Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki is fighting for potatoes, what are you fighting for? Sen. Ntutu is here and knows that the wheat that comes from Narok County is sufficient to feed the people of Kenya and beyond."
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