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    "content": "this council. At the end of the day, the farmer will have a better place to keep the produce. The Bill talks of management of these warehouses. I support having a council at the national level because it will coordinate this information. It will standardise the quality of these warehouses in terms of the services they provide. It will be easy to share information. You will know which warehouse in which county holds what produce. Without that coordination then we will not know where to get what. I will also support what Sen. Olekina said that it is good if we have the management decentralized; Let us have the central one, but also decentralize it. That is where the County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) come in. The council will coordinate these county levels, maybe, boards and the information will be shared. One will easily know where to source what produce. That will avoid wastage which normally occurs. There are normally a lot of harvests and wastage in the grain baskets of this country. In the dry parts of this country, you hear there is drought. If this information is available, somebody on the other side will know where to get what produce and will purchase and store at the other end where it will be useful. There are issues here which we need to look at and I hope some of them have been covered. First, there is the issue of the safety of the goods. Once a farmer has stored his or her produce in a warehouse, it should be the responsibility of the warehouse operator to make sure they are safe in terms of quality against any deterioration or even have then insured against any eventuality like fire so that the farmer does not lose the produce. There is also that aspect of insurance which we need to look at. The quality of the produce will increase because if you have to deliver your produce to a warehouse and not your own storage then you must meet a particular quality. That way the farmers will endeavour to make sure that they plant the right kind of crops and using the right kind of seeds so that they can be acceptable in that storage. I expect that to increase the quality of the farm produce. At least, that will have assisted the Kenyan farmer or producer of whatever agricultural produce. It will make that information available, especially with this era of new information technology. One could easily know what is stored in which warehouse without having to travel or even to go to the Warehouse Receipt System Council. I am sure along the way somebody will develop software where you can easily know where to get what. That way, it will improve marketing and even increase production. As we know, one of the “Big Four Agenda” is about increased food production and value addition which will all be achieved if we first secure the produce and store it properly. I support."
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