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    "id": 80867,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/80867/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbiuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 79,
        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
        "slug": "japhet-kareke-mbiuki"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depots and silos in the harvesting areas are open. Grain is being taken in from farmers who want to store their grain under the new Warehousing Receipt System (WRS). The Government, through the Ministry of State for Special Programmes, has authorized the NCPB to purchase maize worth Kshs500 million for the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). This activity will commence once the funds are released to the NCPB. Those farmers who have stored their maize under the WRS and wish to sell their maize will be given the first opportunity to do so. (b) The new buying price by NCPB for a 90 kilogramme bag of dry maize is Kshs1,800. The Ministry does not determine the price of fertilizers on the market, although there are limited carry-overs, stocks of the subsidized fertilizers at the NCPB depot. A 50-kilogramme bag of DAT fertilizer goes at Kshs2,000, while that of 20200 goes at Kshs1,850 and that of CAN retails at Kshs1,700. However, my Ministry will endeavor to make sure that farmers are not exploited by unscrupulous fertilizer dealers. (c) The current NCPB charges for storage and drying of maize for farmers are favourable. The Ministry has no budget for free storage and drying of maize for farmers during the 2010/2011 Financial Year."
}