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"content": "the names of cartels, knowing that Kenyan farmers must buy fertilizer. There is a group of people who, whether they like it or not, will always be their customers and the Government sits back and allows this to continue for years ever since Independence. This Government should be embarrassed. I really want to hear the Ministry on this very sensitive issue. We keep on bringing Questions here and they are taken around, withdrawn and disappear. Today, using this Motion, we would really like to hear the response of the Government, which I believe will be positive about the establishment of a factory in this country. There is a problem with these cartels. Until those cartels are eliminated, we will not make progress. I hear we have a bullet factory. I do not know whether we are at war. I hear it is also doing very well, but I do not know where they sell those bullets. I can tell you that people can make money everywhere else, but not where it affects food security of this country. We have seen on television screen faces of hungry people, yet what we hear from Government contradicts what we see on television on daily basis. It is amazing to hear the Ministries of Agriculture and Special Progammes talking about how we have enough maize, but what we see on our television screen is a woman dying as she waits for relief food. We see children crying because of hunger. Yesterday, I watched a feature on HIV positive people in Mwingi who, due to lack of food, are not able to take Anti-retroviral medicine. We need a human face in Government, especially in the Ministry of Agriculture. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the creation of a factory here for us--- I have heard about the East African co-operation and the negotiations that are going on because, apparently, Uganda and Tanzania have the resources that Kenya does not have. But I hope that the co-operation for East Africa is not only about resources; it is about market. Maybe, Kenya is the biggest market for fertilizer. It is important for those who are negotiating that kind of trade agreement for Kenya to realize that even if Uganda was to have that factory Kenya would be buying the bulk of that fertilizer. So, again, it is important that we negotiate Kenyaâs interests first before we negotiate away our interest, especially for farmers. It is not also rocket science to realize that our soils are heavily depleted due to climate change issues and soil erosion during floods. You can see that all our rivers are drowning. They are drowning because they carry the top soil of our farming land. Therefore, it is also important for the Ministry to acknowledge that, without proper input into our soils, Kenya can no longer produce. It can no longer proudly talk about being an agricultural country because our soils are so depleted that without the input of fertilizer, we cannot produce the kind of food we were producing before. Therefore, I want to conclude by encouraging the Ministry to go green. Going green, I believe, is what is going to save us even in terms of establishment of that factory because we have seen even from small pilot projects that women are able to put back into their farms fertilizer from the waste that they get within their households. From the kitchen waste that they get, they are able to use that in their little kitchen shambas. It is surely not rocket science. If we can use organic materials to produce fertilizer, Kenya would be way ahead. I believe we will set the pace certainly in terms of research and technology, in terms of improvement of the kind of fertilizers that are created. The young people of this country would get jobs. We know that agriculture is employing very many people. In terms of the input by the young people, they may not want to go to the farms necessarily. But I am sure they will be very happy to be in the"
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