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    "content": "Looking at the Warehouse Receipt System Council, it is as if we are creating a central organ that will be able to coordinate all other warehouses. I think this formation of the Warehouse Receipt System Council should be given to counties. It should have a component of the 47 Warehouse Receipt System Councils which will be able to work, coordinate or regulate their own counties. Another shortcoming in the Bill is the formation of markets. What we do not have today in Kenya is a good market for our produce. If these warehouses could link farmers with markets, we could be saying that one will come and deposit their produce with an assurance of getting market. I saw in the other part of the Bill that you can even deposit processed and packaged produce in these warehouses, but where is the market? It states that they will deliver your produce to you when you get market. Why do they not try and market this produce for you? That is exactly what we need as a country. We need to get to know that we have farmers who have deposited their produce in a certain warehouse in, for example, Narok, Kajiado, Laikipia, Kisii counties and they can access a certain market. If you have, for example, processed your meat, packaged it and deposited it in a certain warehouse, why is the so-called Council not trying to get a market for you to sell your produce? Why does it have to lie in that warehouse until you get the market for yourself? This Bill has very good intentions for the farmers of this country, but it must have the component of the warehouse. In addition to this, I was looking at the formation of another council. We have a National Cereal Boards, why do we have to create more organs instead of first empowering what we already have? Maybe what we need to look into is what the National Cereal Boards lacks, what we have to do to empower them and add them duties. Consequently, they can do similar work of this council and maybe create these councils in the county. What we need to do as a House is to look at the way we can help the Ministry or the originator of the Bill to make sure that it has taken note of devolution. Subsequently, we should encourage devolution instead of creating more national bodies. I, therefore, support this Bill but it needs amendments."
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