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    "id": 777397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/777397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkut",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamuren Chirchir Chepkut",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Professor. I have been wondering that, in Kenya, all these intellectuals do not translate their acquired knowledge, expertise and authority into practice. I urge the PS for the State Department for Agricultural Research to translate the intellectual discourse into practice. You know very well that Rift Valley, especially the North Rift, is planting a lot of maize, wheat, cash crops and also do value addition. We also produce a lot of milk. The Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) is paying us Kshs24 per litre, while last year they were paying Kshs43 per litre. I want the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury to put a lot of money into agriculture so that the inputs, especially fertilisers and seeds, are subsidised so that whatever we harvest is commensurate to our production. You can see that the cost of production is very high. At the same time, is it logical to get the money for importing maize from abroad when we have money that we can use and subsidise the seeds, fertilises and, of course, the fuel so that the cost of production comes down?"
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