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    "content": "farmers may, after a bumper harvest, lack space to be able to keep their produce and they incur a lot of loses because some of this produce is perishable. I also see this Warehouse Receipt System giving the Ministry a framework of having a data of our producers. The Ministry or the country can know from the warehouses, how many farmers have a certain product and in which warehouse. That will be able to bring out the number of farmers, maybe, who have produced bananas or processed meat and milk. They can be tracked from whatever corner of the country and one can easily tell how many have a certain product in which warehouse. It will also enable the country to keep stock of what we have. The Senate Minority Leader has just said that today, when we do not have maize in Kajiado County or there is a shortage of food in Makueni County, we just generalise that we do not have food, yet, we have quite a number of farmers with a lot maize in Kitale and others selling bananas along the way in Kisii, but we do not have such as kind of stock. I think this warehousing system will be able to give us a proper stock on what we have. I want to believe that maybe in every county we shall have a number of farmers having their produce well-labelled that they have this number of bananas or packaged meat and milk. We can therefore take stock of what we have so that we do not just say we have no food in the country while there are some areas that have food but only lack market. I also see in the Bill a creation of record for our producers. Whoever will be having a product will be able to have a record, which is why I have liked the concept of a receipt. Whoever is producing potatoes maybe from our Narok County will be able to know that they have that receipt with this record of potatoes, the warehouse and date. Therefore, producers will the know the exact quantity of the produce in the county unlike where we have just farmers like me - I am a farmer - just producing but cannot even know exactly what they have produced per year. For example, I shall know the number of litres of milk or sacks of maize I have sold in a particular year. However, with this receipt a certain farmer will be able to keep a record of his own produce. Another aspect that I see in the Bill which interests me quite a lot is a situation where a certain farmer can easily get market for his produce. This is because these warehouses will contain information of those farmers we may not know from the rural area, who may be having a particular produce which one needs. Today, if I get to know that there is a warehouse with French beans which I need, I will not be going everywhere to the field or to a certain county to look for them. I will particularly go to a certain warehouse where I can access the records of the Warehouse Receipt System Council. I will also know the number of bags of French beans which I have an interest in buying. Therefore, people who need a particular produce will be able to access it easily unlike now when one just guesses. Therefore, they will go directly to a particular county and trace the farmer from whichever corner. Having said all that, this Bill also has a number of shortcomings. I concur with my colleagues that it needs to be amended. One, having in mind that agriculture is a devolved function; we need to now devolve any other organ or institution we want to create. 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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